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
| Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1884 - 636 pagina’s
...Or, Shall Г not, ft«. 7 Or. bcpmiMtd. (Ц) Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. <и> ecause they were not. (is) Thus saith them : for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused tiiem to err, and they have gone a whoring from under... | |
| Thomas Kelly Cheyne - 1884 - 162 pagina’s
...sensual idolatry has carried them away. 11. Whoredom, &c.] 'The heart', not 'their heart' (as the Targum 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... | |
| Andrew Lang - 1884 - 332 pagina’s
...decouvrent 1'illusion des Philosophes sur la Baguette ' (1696). This text is translated in our Bible, 'My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them! Now, we have here no reference to the search for wells and minerals, but to a form of divination... | |
| Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 pagina’s
...sought in an ancient custom of the Israelites, to which the Prophet Hosea alludes when he says : " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them." In Sweden, Hazel-nuts are believed to have the mystical power of making invisible. An old-fashioned... | |
| F. M - 1884 - 140 pagina’s
...Holy Spirit : therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them " 72 CHAPTER XI. ' My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them " 77 CHAPTER XII. " My people is risen up as an enemy " , . . .81 CHAPTER XIII. PAGE "My sheep... | |
| sir James MacNabb Campbell - 1885 - 540 pagina’s
...Yoe'sTheBurman, II, 138). The Chinese divine with a rod, and so did the Jews. Compare (Hosea, iv, 12) ' My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them' (Gray's China, II, 26). Old men in China rub their hands with wood or walnuts to keep up circulation... | |
| 1885 - 622 pagina’s
...lines. The Arch Druid performed miracles with his magically carved staff and prophesied by its help. " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them, . . . therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall." Hosca iv. 12-14 Their wisdom... | |
| John James Given - 1888 - 588 pagina’s
...become possessed of a spirit of whoredoms. See the effects. I. THEY WENT AFTER SENSELESS FOLLIES. " My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them " (ver. 12). The spirit of sin is a spirit of " error." It robs men of their better judgment.... | |
| George Rawlinson - 1889 - 264 pagina’s
...and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood" (chap. iv. 1, 2). "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... | |
| Anne Walbank Buckland - 1891 - 324 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 Septuagint as referring... | |
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