| James Grant - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...Missionary Society, he gave out to the astonishment of all present, the following verse from Jeremiah — " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the...fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and to drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger."... | |
| George Rapall Noyes - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...thee. n Seest thou not what they do In the cities of Judah, and the streets of Jerusalem T is The sons gather wood, And the fathers kindle the fire, And the women knead dough, To make cakes for the queen of heaven, And to pour out libations to strange gods, That they... | |
| 1860
...midst of Jerusalem, and compare it well with the faets of actual life- you may now see around you. " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the...their dough, to make cakes, to the queen, of heaven " (Jer. yii. 18). And while this presents to us a solemn warning as to the family unity in godlessness,... | |
| George Pritchard - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...resembles that of certain persons, who were formerly engaged in a less noble cause, of whom it is said, "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle...their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven." They also possess much missionary zeal. Their bowels yearn with compassion over those who are yet "... | |
| John Morison - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...effective sermon ever preached before that Society. The text was selected from Jer. vii. 18. — " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the...fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me... | |
| 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...the case of the poor benighted idolaters, which is graphically set forth by the prophet Jeremiah : " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make the cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods."... | |
| Church of Scotland - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...table of devils. Vtr. 22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy ? are we stronger than he? Jer. vii. 18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the...unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Ver. 19. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord : do they not provoke themselves to the confusion... | |
| John Woolman - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...towards idolatrous sacrifice, by the similitude of a work carried on by children, men, and women: " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the...their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven." Jer. vii. 18. It was a complaint of the Lord against Israel, through his prophet Ezekiel, that "they... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger. (Malachi. iv. 1.) JEREMIAH vii. 18. "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle...their dough, to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven." EZEKIEL iv. 9. " Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and... | |
| Miss Cornish - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...Jeremiah takes notice of this sort of offering : " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle a fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven." A curious inscription has been preserved by Spon and Wheeler. It seemed to belong to some obelisk or... | |
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