To the mass of mankind these lessons are for the time only, and prophesy nothing of the future.
If you have to stir the dry bones you must prophesy to them in a loud voice, and not leave off till they have begun to shake.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, in Merlin's prophesy especially, often refers to these mythical monsters; and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is equally expressive in attributing disaster to their influences.
She even volunteered a prophesythat we would be good friends and contented fellow voyagers.
But, I leave it to you, my dear boy, to prophesy the result, if you go into this thing.
I know it; but I am grieved that the queen did not prophesy a happy result for that expedition, and everything she predicts is always fulfilled.
But he said that the marrow was not meat, and besides he had received permission to do it, because after sucking marrow, he used to have marvelous visions during his sleep and the next day he could prophesy until noontime.
Fear not, Shaman, my wrath is past, yet be wise, mine enemy, and prophesy no more evil to the great.
Jeremiah's defence was simple and direct: "Jehovah sent me to prophesy all that ye have heard against this house and against this city.
They prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; That I should drive you out, and that you should perish.
Jeremiah was divinely instructed to reply to Shemaiah, charging him, in his turn, with being a man who put himself forward to prophesy without any commission from Jehovah, and who thus deluded his hearers into belief in falsehoods.
Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you.
Why then hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who puts himself forward to prophesyunto you?
The prophets who "prophesy lies in My name" "cause My people to forget My name.
In their eyes England is a perfect Moab, concerning which they are ever ready to prophesy after the manner of Jeremiah.
Pray tell this to old John, who used always to prophesy that this fellow would come to no good: assure him, however, at the same time, that all the Dutch sailors do not deserve his maledictions.
And now let me indulge the vanity of a mother; let me exult in the accomplishment of my prophecies, and let me be listened to with due humility, when I prophesy again.
I prophesyin the name of the Lord God, and let it be written, The Son of Man will not come in the clouds of heaven till I am eighty-five years old.
I defy all the world to destroy the work of God, and I prophesy they never will have power to kill me till my work is accomplished, and I am ready to die.
I prophesy in the name of the Lord God, that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be in South Carolina.
In other words, its usual manifestations are divination and prophesy rather than miracles.
Then he is dragged away from it by force and set on a chair, whereupon he begins toprophesy how the rice crop will turn out that year.
YORKS] Further, there are many false prophets who prophesy without science, and they rarely miss the opportunity of sending along a forecast in order to give the constituted clerk of the weather a leg up in his arduous duties.
Jesting apart, those who have studied Mr. Austen Chamberlain in the House and on the platform, prophesy for him a very remarkable career.
Perhaps Jeanne d'Arc had heard the prophesy about the maid,--certainly she had listened to many beautiful tales about the lives of the Saints.
Surrey was not to be deceived, and steadily refused to prophesy smooth things.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part: but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away"; Rev.
No man standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave has any right toprophesy a future filled with pain and tears.
And the King looked at him and said, "Prophesy unto us.
And from its shape the knights in Camorak's hall would prophesy the battles and sieges of the next season of war.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
The whole series of the Apocalypse proves that the two witnesses live and prophesy throughout the 1260 years of Antichrist's reign.
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shallprophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
This commission did not terminate with the ministry of the apostle, although he may be truly said to prophesy by the Apocalypse to all nations till the end of the world.
The witnesses prophesy during the whole period of the 1260 years; and the woman is fed in the wilderness during the same time.
John Huss and Jerome of Prague did not prophesy 1260 years, nor have we the shadow of a ground to believe that any of the human race shall ever prolong their days on earth to the age of Methuselah.
They must continue toprophesy till the close of the appointed period of 1260 years.
This interpretation may be abundantly confirmed in the following manner:--The witnesses prophesy 1260 years.
Mere craving has no lights of its own to prophesy by, no prescience of what the world may contain that would satisfy, no power of imagining what would allay its unrest.
To prophesy a check would be impossible but for an incipient movement already meeting an incipient arrest.
And I will give [power] to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying: (8)This people honor me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
And they say to me: Thou must again prophesy of many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
And he said to them: Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites; as it is written: This people honor me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in thy name, and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name do many miracles?
For ye can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all be comforted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prophesy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
