Löydetty 423 Tulokset: Priests

• I called to my lovers; they failed me. My priests and my elders expired in the city, as they searched for food to keep themselves alive. (Lamentations 1, 19)

• Owing to the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, who had shed the blood of the upright, in the heart of the city, (Lamentations 4, 13)

• The face of Yahweh destroyed them, he will look on them no more. There was no respect for the priests, no deference for the elders. (Lamentations 4, 16)

• and sent it to Jerusalem to the priest Jehoiakim son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, and the other priests, and all the people who were with him in Jerusalem. (Baruch 1, 7)

• for our kings and princes, our priests, our prophets, and for our ancestors, (Baruch 1, 16)

• And sometimes, the priests filch gold and silver from their gods to spend on themselves, even giving some of it to the prostitutes on the terrace. (Baruch 6, 9)

• Just as the doors are locked on all sides on someone who has offended a king and is under sentence of death, so the priests secure the temples of these gods with gates and bolts and bars for fear of burglary. (Baruch 6, 17)

• Whatever is sacrificed to them, the priests re-sell and pocket the profit; while their wives salt down part of it, but give nothing to the poor or to the helpless. As to the sacrifices themselves, why, women during their periods and women in childbed are not afraid to touch them! (Baruch 6, 27)

• In their temples, the priests stay sitting down, their garments torn, heads and beard shaved and heads uncovered; (Baruch 6, 30)

• The priests take robes from the gods to clothe their own wives and children. (Baruch 6, 32)

• If war or disasters befall them, the priests discuss where best to hide themselves and these gods; (Baruch 6, 48)

• If fire falls on the temple of these wooden gods overlaid with gold or silver, their priests fly to safety while they for their part stay there like beams, to be burnt. (Baruch 6, 54)