"Jeremiah" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... children that were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned from the wise men. (17)Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying: ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... the opening hymn, coloring at the discovery. His voice wavered perceptibly in the earlier parts of the service as the absorbed congregation noted; but by sermon time he had conquered his nervousness, and with set jaw thundered out his text from Jeremiah: "Why trimmest thou thy way?" With this entering wedge the parson clove into an analysis of practical politics which did not stick at instancing corruption near at hand, and whose climax was a bitter denunciation of ignoble leadership and the doubly ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther
... curses, they waged open war against him at the time of Jephthah, and also at the time of Jehoshaphat, and finally they manifested their hatred against Israel at the destruction of the Temple. Hence it is that God appointed four prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Zephaniah, to proclaim punishment unto the descendants of Lot, and four times their sin is ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
... pines and laments, Jeremiah-like, on the ruins of our foreign policy, and accuses Seward of it—behind his back. Why has not pater conscriptus uttered a single word of condemnation from his Senatorial fauteuil, and kept mute during three sessions? Sunt nobis homunculi ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski
... were again lighted, the charter was gone! Sir Edmund was disconcerted. He declared the government of Connecticut to be in his own hands, and that the colony was annexed to Massachusetts and the other New England colonies, and proceeded to appoint officers. Captain Jeremiah Wadsworth, a patriot of those times, had hidden the charter in the hollow of Wyllis's oak, whence it was afterward known ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church
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