 | Philip Schaff - Church history - 1877 - 948 pages
...faith, scarce thirty years old : to whom that saying of Isaiah does very well agree — ' Woe nnto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter' (v. 20). CHAPTER XIV. OF REPENTANCE, AND THE CONVERSION OF... | |
 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...their path : for their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood ' (Prov. i. 10-16). Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent... | |
 | Missions - 1810 - 582 pages
...Fanatic, are the mildest epithets which will be applied to him ! But what says Jehovah? ' Woe unto them that call evil Good, and good Evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just,... | |
 | 1808 - 500 pages
...corruption more secretly, but more certainly : bul hear the words of the prophel — " Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, anj sweet for bitter." (Isaiah v. 20.) " Of the same nature with indecent conversation... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...filings are all bugbears, and that God can20 not or will not do а.ч they have said. Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for -light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! who confound the nature qf virtue and vice, contrary to their... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know // .' 20 ^f Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1808 - 454 pages
...should concur in endeavouring to turn it into ridicule. Woe unto them, says the prophet Isaiah, that cd\ evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light ) and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter I— fheir root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...one for the other, until it falls under that woe denounced by the prophet, Isa. v. 20. Woe unto them, that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Ignorance vitiates and corrupts the conscience two ways: either... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 560 pages
...contribute directly to the sin of others, and bring that woe on themselves, Isa. IT. 2O. ' Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.* By all these, two fall at once; for the sin of him that commands,... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. (p) Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put. .darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. • . (q) Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing... | |
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 
