Jeremiah 5:10 Go you up on her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's. Oh, that England would learn that increased wealth and swollen fortunes and material prosperity are no signs of a nation's strength. Pagan Rome was never richer than when she had scarce a freeman left. In the Middle Ages, Papal Rome stood raking into chests the countless gold of her jubilee, just before she suffered her most humiliating shame. Spain was dropping to pieces of inward decay when all the gold of the New World was flowing into the treasure of her kings. "Your glory," said Oliver Cromwell, "is the ditch which guards your shores. I tell you your ditch will not save you if you do not reform yourselves." Some nations have had a false ideal of absolutism, many, and especially modern nations, have had a false ideal of liberty. (Dean Farrar.) Parallel Verses KJV: Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S. |
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