 | James Ellice - 1824 - 92 pages
...breathes also the same parental tenderness, He, the Lord, found Jacob his people in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He led him about,...instructed him, He kept him as the apple of his eye. As the eagle stirreth up her nest, Jiuttereth over her YOUNG, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...and I am come down to deliver them, &c. — Exod. iii. 7 — 9. ii. 23 — 25. 1 Sam. ix. 1£. Tlie Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance : he found him in a desert land, &c. He led him ubout (or encompassed him about) : he instructed him : he kept him as the apple of his... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1824 - 366 pages
...jewels, and he will preserve them ; yea, he will spare them as a man spareth his son that serveth him. " The Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." They are near to his heart, and to his eye, and his ear is open to their complaints. " Blessed are... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. — Deut. xiv. 1,2. xxvi. 17— 19. For the Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance, &c. He led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. — Deut. xxxii. 9, 10.... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 758 pages
...family, which was afterwards a nation. Abraham fell to • the lot of God, as it is written, " For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance." Deut. xxxii. 9. But here it should be known, that the lot of God was as much in number as that of all... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...thought of euch little worth, as to make them common to all mankind ? (i) p. 20. " A people, &c." " For the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 32 Deut. 9." (*) v.21. " Angry, &c." See Numb. xx. S. 8. 10. 12. The people gathered them•elves together... | |
 | 1038 pages
...nodi. 8 — 11, and see in what tender and endearing language this guardian care is 8poken of: "For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot...apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth ahroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings ; so... | |
 | 1825 - 390 pages
...inquires, ' Do ye thus requite the Lord,' who separated the sons of Adam and looked down upon Jacob ? " He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling...apple of his eye. " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, ' spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; "... | |
 | 1825 - 392 pages
...inquires, ' Do ye thus requite the Lord,' who separated the sons of Adam and looked down upon Jacob ? " He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling...apple of his eye. " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; "So... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1825 - 388 pages
...inquires, ' Do ye thus requite the Lord,' who separated the sons of Adam and looked down upon Jacob ? " He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling...of his eye. . . " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings ; " So... | |
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He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 
