...the innocent, and are really destroying the state by the very means they 1 1 use to strengthen it. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests...for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money ; all their leaders are mercenary, the judges take bribes, and the priests salaries, though otherwise...

...Courtiers and court-ferving men. The heads of the land judge for reward ; and the people thereof judge for hire ; and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet •will they lean upon the Lord, and fay, Is not the Lord among us? Were the firft Minifter to appoint a preacher before the Houfe of Commons...

...Courtiers and court-ferving men. The heads of the land judge for reward ; and the people thereof judge for hire ; and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and fay, Is not the' Lord among among us? Were the firft Minifter to appoint a preacher before the Houfe...

...according to that of the prophet : ' The priests'teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money; yet wiH they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us?' With the untempered mortar of supposed sanctity, they raise up a Babel of presumption, from whose steep...

...judgment, And pervert all that is right : 10 Who build up Sion by blood, and Jerusalem by iniquity. 11 The Heads thereof judge for reward; And the priests...teach for hire ; And the prophets thereof divine for silver: And yet they lean on Jehovah, Saying : Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? Evil shall not come...

...they seek after, according to that of the prophet : ' The priests'teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us?" With the untempered mortar of supposed sanctity, they raise up a Babel of presumption, from whose steep...

...money they seek after, according to that of the prophet: ' The priests'teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us?' With the untempered mortar of supposed sanctity, they raise up л Babel of presumption, from whose...

...perish: V. 14. Whose hope shall be cut off, and whuse trust shall be a spider's web. Micah iii. 1 1 . The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divii.e for money : yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us ? Dime evil...

...The prophet Mieah, complaining of the universal corruption of manners in Zion and Jerusalem, says-, " the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets...lean upon the Lord and say, is not the Lord among us ? no evil can come upon us." Nehemiah asserted, as we have already noted, that a false prophet had...

...nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of Hosts," (Mai. vi. 10.) " The priests of Zion preach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money....upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us?" (Mic. iii. 11.) " Thus saith the Lord, The prophets bite with their teeth, and cry peace : and he that...