 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1814 - 312 pages
...we can pretend ? Still we are ready, perhaps, to exclaim with the people of Israel in the context, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us. Let us hear the prophet's reply : Surely in vain hath he made it ; the pen of the scribes is in vain.... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us i Lo, certainly in vain made he it ; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 The wise men are ashamed,... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 pages
...swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us ? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they... | |
 | Legh Richmond - Suffering - 1817 - 806 pages
...word of the Lord, and the Lord hath cast away thee." Again, Jtremiah saith (chap, vi.), "How do ye say we are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us ? They have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wisdom is in them ?" Again, " Unto whom shall I... | |
 | Tim Bobbin, John Corry - English language - 1819 - 536 pages
...rejoiced in your oppressive gains? though your wealth was great, and your hands full ? How do ye say we are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us ? Lo ! the law was made unto you as vain , and the scribes wrote without effect : for ye have despised... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribe is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1844 - 638 pages
...aright.' They did speak ; but they had better not have spoken at all. And what spake they ? (Verse 8.) " We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us. Lo, certainly in vain made lie it; the pen of the scribes is in vain." In fact, they rejected the •word... | |
 | George Lawson - 1821 - 452 pages
...before the cold sets in, fly away to warmer climates. How then do ye say, * Dag. iii. t Job «xvi. 33.. we are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us, if you are more senseless than the beasts of the earth, and less wise than the fowls of heaven ? Will... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1823 - 670 pages
...persons fall short of every purpose for which the word of God was mercifully given. '.f How do ye say, " we are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us ? " Lo, certainly in vain made he it, the pen of the " scribes is in vain." l The word of truth continually... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1823 - 590 pages
...Text, the people olJudea are exhibited as saying, in the midst of all their apostacy and wickedness, We are wise, and the Law of the Lord is with us : that is, We are holy, or virtuous ; and the Law of the Lord is possessed, understood, and obeyed,... | |
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We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?" Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. 
