 | William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 330 pages
...encouragement. Ten righteous men would have saved Sodom. And God says of the Jews, " I sought for a man, among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the...Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them, I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath; their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1834 - 536 pages
...holy prophet, he closes his description with these remarkable words : And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the...land, that I should not destroy it ; but I found none. Let us not deceive ourselves with vain words. The just displeasure of God, as it will by no means spare... | |
 | Theology - 1837 - 588 pages
...correct delineation of slavery and its effects.) "And I sought lor a man among them that should makeup the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; hut I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; 1 have consumed them with... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - Bible - 1835 - 652 pages
...other, without giving himself into the hands of the extortioner. 30. — "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land." A man having lost all his children, and in complaining of his forlorn condition, says, '• Alas !... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - 1835 - 656 pages
...other, without giving himself into the hands of the extortioner. 30. — "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land." A man having lost all his children, and in complaining of his forlorn condition, says, - Alas ! I have... | |
 | John Francis Cleaver - 1835 - 208 pages
...excepting what was termed their "heretical pravity." The Lord " sought for" and "found" in them, men "that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before him for the land." These particulars will give you some idea of the diversity of agencies which God... | |
 | Slavery - 1838 - 148 pages
...needy ; yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully, and I sought for a man among them that should stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should...Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them ; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath ; their own way have I recompensed upon their heads,... | |
 | Augustus William Hare - 1836 - 562 pages
...lest the words be spoken to us, which were spoken formerly to Ezekiel, " And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the...that I should not destroy it ; but I found none." (xxii. 30.) May such words never be spoken to our country ! God grant that England may never be without... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 900 pages
...poor and needy : yea, they have oppressed the stranger "wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among e care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometl 1 should not destroy it : but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them... | |
 | 1836 - 364 pages
...I sought for a man among them that should ** make up the fence, and that should stand in the breach before me, for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found 31 ff none. Therefore have I poured on them mine indignation, in the fire of my wrath have I consumed... | |
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And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. 
