 | Thomas Scott - Sermons, English - 1825 - 632 pages
...delivered ! Such persons attended Ezekiel. " Lo thou art to them," said the Lord to his prophet, " as a very lovely song of one that hath a " pleasant...instrument : for they hear thy words but they do them "not."1 The captious hearer likewise requires to be no ticed. He comes on purpose to criticize and... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - Theology - 1825 - 554 pages
...the word as meat, but as music, as God tells the prophet Ezekiel of his people', Ezek. xxxiii. 32. And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of...one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well upon an instrument ; for they hear thy words, and they do them not. To desire the word for the increase... | |
 | Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson - Theology - 1825 - 556 pages
...desire, the word as meat, but as music, as God tells the prophet Ezekiel of his people, Ezek. xxxiii. 32. And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of...one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well upon an instrument ; for they hear thy words, and they do them not. To desire the word for the increase... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...desires of whatever sort. And lo, thou art unto them fts a very lovely song, of one that hath a pkasant voice, and can play well on an instrument : for they hear thy word-s, but they do them not *. Religious instruction could never be appointed to give such empty, insignificant delight as this... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1825 - 558 pages
...words, but your hearts in the meantime have gone after your cuvetousness. He hath been to you as a lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument, and, therefore, you have heard his words : but, have you done them? See Ezekiel, xxxiii. 31, 32, and... | |
 | Samuel Walker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 270 pages
...your curiosity, only engaga your imagination, and amuse you with an entertainment of an hour, " as one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument;" unless you be deeply impressed with the importance of the matter; and enter into an inquiry after the... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Biography & Autobiography - 1954 - 452 pages
...conversation. Ezekiel served his Master with his most musical and melodious powers, so that the Lord said, "Thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that...pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument." Although this, alas! was of no use to Israel's hard heart, as nothing will be but the Spirit of God,... | |
 | Gabriel Josipovici - Religion - 1990 - 376 pages
...who is telling them an awful truth: 'And, lo,' says Ezekiel, miming their speech, 'thou [ie himself] art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath...instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not' (33:32). See H. Fisch, Poetry With a Purpose (1988), ch. 4. Chapter IX Walter Benjamin, Understanding... | |
 | E. W. Bullinger - Bibles - 1999 - 2170 pages
...tljem: for with their mouth tfjeg "shew much love, bat their heart goeth after Iheir covetousness. 32 And, °lo, thou art unto them as °a very lovely song...voice, and can play well on an instrument : for they bear thy words, but they do tfyem not. 33 And when this cometh to pass, (32lo, it will come,) then... | |
 | Jean Bradley Anderson - History - 1990 - 678 pages
...musical excerpts from Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Hook suggested its biblical inscription: "And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument."16 The new building opened in 19oo and the... | |
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And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. 
