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This was the oath God swore to our father Abraham to set us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship without fear, holy and righteous in the Lord's sight, all the days of our life. R and you, child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to prepare the way, to give God's people knowledge of ...
Verses 14-16 announce in poetry the sending of an unnamed messenger among the nations (including Edom). O'Connor argues that "by implication, Jeremiah is the messenger", although Obadiah 1:1 has very similar wording attributed to the prophet Obadiah: Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the Lord,
Hosea is a prophet whom God uses to portray a message of repentance to God's people. Through Hosea's marriage to Gomer, God shows his great love for his great people, comparing himself to a husband whose wife has committed adultery, using this image as a metaphor for the covenant between God and Israel. God's love was "misunderstood" by his ...
Chrysostom: "A further reward also He promises, saying, He who receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet’s reward.He said not merely, Whoso receiveth a prophet, or a righteous man, but in the name of a prophet, and in the name of a righteous man; that is, not for any greatness in this life, or other temporal account, but because he is a prophet, or a righteous man."
Sudi also quotes from poems of two Persian poets, Kātibī of Nishabur (d. 1434-5) [5] and Ahli Shirazi (d. 1535), in which they express surprise that Hafez had borrowed a line from such a hated figure as Yazid, who was notorious among other things for causing the death of the Prophet's grandson Husayn at the Battle of Karbala in 680.
The shepherd promises to wash God's clothes, to bring God milk to drink, to comb God's hair and kill his lice, and other such actions as one might do for a beloved friend. Moses rebukes the shepherd for attributing human characteristics to God, and also for speaking to God in such a familiar manner. The shepherd abjectly apologizes and rends ...
[1] [2] The video has thus far received more than 34 million views. [3] The theme of the video revolves around "the difference between Jesus and false religion." [1] Underneath his video, Bethke delineated its purpose: A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion.
The Song of Hannah is a poem interpreting the prose text of the Books of Samuel. According to the surrounding narrative, the poem (1 Samuel 2:1–10) was a prayer delivered by Hannah, to give thanks to God for the birth of her son, Samuel. It is similar to Psalm 113 [1] and the Magnificat. [2]