 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.  Curious Myths of the Middle Ages - Pagina 32door Sabine Baring-Gould - 2007 - 388 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Garrett Lewis - 1874 - 304 pagina’s
...remembrance the iniquity, That they may be taken."1 Hosea, complaining of the degeneracy of Israel, says: "My people ask counsel at their stocks, And their staff declareth unto them. " 2 Rhabdomancy , or divination by the staff, was akin to the Babylonian use of arrows for the... | |
 | Antony Réal - 1875 - 280 pagina’s
...that they had learned from their ancestors. God upbraids his people for this superstition in Hosea : " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them." Since that time wood has so often been consulted that rabdomancy is known to all the nations... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1875 - 480 pagina’s
...xxiii. 4. "Jehovah hath broken ills staff- — of his shoulder," Isaiah ix. 4; xiv. 5 ; Psalm cxxv. 3. " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them," Hosea iv. 12. " Jehovah doth take away from Jerusalem — the staff of bread, and all the staff... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pagina’s
...like the last among the Alans, and (from Tacitus) among the Germans. The words of Hosea (iv. 12), " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them," are thus explained by Theophylactus : " They stuck up a couple of sticks, whilst murmuring certain... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pagina’s
...like the last among the Alans, and (from Tacitus) among the Germans. The words of Hosea (iv. 12), " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them," are thus explained by Theophylactus : " They stuck up a couple of sticks, whilst murmuring certain... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pagina’s
...something like the last among the Alans, and (from Tacitus) among the Germans. The words of Hosea (iv. 12), "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them," are thus explained by Theophylactus : " They stuck up a couple of sticks, whilst murmuring certain... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1876 - 946 pagina’s
...comfort me (Ps. xxiii. 4). Jehovah hath broken the STAFF of the wicked (Isa. xiv. 5 ; Ps. cxxv. 3). My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their STAFF declareth unto them (Hosea iv. 12). Jehovah doth take away from Jerusalem the STAFF of bread, and all the STAFF of... | |
 | Jonathan Holt Titcomb - 1876 - 194 pagina’s
...Europe, abused it for the purpose of divination, as we may collect from the following passages: — ' My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them ' (Hosea iv. 12). Again, in Isaiah xix. 11 — 15, the prophet speaks of the wise men of Egypt... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 868 pagina’s
...appears that the revolted Israelites had adopted it, in common with so many other heathen practices : ' My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them.' One mode of divining by this means was to set up a number of rods in the earth, and when they... | |
 | 1876 - 606 pagina’s
...budding of the latter, it was probably a branched stick of almond. There is a passage in Hosea (iv. 12), "My people ask counsel at their stocks and their staff declareth unto them," which is given by Jerome, Cyril, and other commentators, as well as the Septuagiut, as referring... | |
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