 | Early English newspapers - 1789 - 640 pages
...will the new moon be gone, ih .1 < may fell corn : and the Sabbath, that we may fet forth wheat ? 6. THAT WE MAY BUY THE POOR FOR SILVER, AND THE NEEDY FOR A FAIR OF SHOES ? 7. Tlie Lord hath fworn by the excellency of Jacob, 1 will not forget any of their... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1808 - 282 pages
...forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great:" making the measure small, and the price great, *' and falsifying the balances by deceit, that we may buy the poor for silver, and tne needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat .' The Lord hath sworn by the excellency... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...weights, wherein the silver is weighed, great and heavy; and falsifying the balances by deceit. VIII. 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes ; and sell thi refuse of the wheat ? That we mav cause the poor to sell themselves to our servitude,... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail; falsifying the balances by deceit, to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat. The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...forth wheat, making the ephuh small, and the shekel great," making the measure small, and the price great, " and falsifying the balances by deceit, that...poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, • and sell the refuse of the wheat? The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will... | |
 | William Cobbett - Conduct of life - 1823 - 308 pages
...labourer to beggary, and that would naturally be succeeded by his abject slavery ; they would •oon " buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair «• of shoes." " Shall not the land tremble for this ?" Aye, and tuatly too. With justice will the /eastings of the... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 572 pages
...that we may sell com? and the sabbath, thai we may set forth wheat, making ihe ephah small, and ihe shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit ? That we may buy the poor for silver, and ihe needy for a pair of shoes ; yea, and sell the refuse of Ihe wheal ? The LORD hath sworn by the... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1828 - 304 pages
...labourer to beggary, and that would naturally be succeeded by his abject slavery ; they would soon " buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair " of shoe*." " Shall not the land tremble for this ?" Aye, and lustlv too. "With justice will the feasting*... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - Bible - 1833 - 306 pages
...forth wheat, ' Making the ephah small, and the shekel heavy, And falsifying the balances for deceit ; a That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the refuse of the wheat. i Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob ; Surely I will never... | |
 | John D. Paxton - History - 1833 - 228 pages
...thereof. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail ; saying — that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes. The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works." Jlmos... | |
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... buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat. 
