...torn, the lame, the sick, as an offering at our hands. We must beware of saying in our hearts — ' When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? And the Sabbath that we may set forth wheat V For this the land trembleth. For the LORD hath sworn by the...

...the degenerate people with an impatience of the holy services of the Sabbath and other festivals : " Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to...of the land to fail, saying, When will the new moon he gone that we may sell corn, and the SABBATH that we may set forth wheat ?" 3 The prophet Ezekiel...

...God against the, oppressors of the poor : " Hear this,"safd I, when I heard of the death of STEEL. " Hear, this, O ye that swallow up the " needy, even to make the poor of the " land to fail ! I will turn yoor feasting/ " into mourning, gaith the Lord God " and your songs into lamentations."...

...reproaches the degenerate people with an impatience of the holy services of the Sabbath and other festivals: "Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to ' * Isaiah Iviii. 10, 13. f Jer. xvii. 19-27. Fail, saying, When will the new moon<be gone that we...

...the oppressors of the poor : " Hear this," said I, when I heard of the death of STEEL. " Hear t his, O ye that swallow up the " needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail ! I will " turn your feasting into mourning, saith the Lord God, " and your sontjs into lamentations."...

...even to make the poor of the land to * Isaiah Iviii. 10, 13. t Jer. xvii. 19—27. t Jer. vii. 22, 23. fail, saying, When will the new moon be gone that we may sell corn, and the Sabbath that we may set forth wheat!* The prophet Ezekiel follows. He lived later than Jeremiah...

...be found to correspond to that which the prophet has drawn of the Sabbath-breakers of his day — " Saying, when will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn ? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying...

...natural bias of the heart and affections to worldly things, rather than religious exercises, Amos viii.5. "When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?" Q. 10. What is the evil of drowsiness, particularly in hearing...

...GOD : there shall be many dead bodies in every place ; they shall cast them forth with silence. 4 IT Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fall, 5 Saying, When will the new-moon be gone, that we may sell corn, and the sabbath, that we may...

...pleasantness; but if we must speak out our own experiences, Mai. 1:13. " O what a weariness is it?" Amos 8:5. Now was the devil put to flight, and in his atead, " the an the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?" We feel a sweetness in these present enjoyments of the world;...