 | William Carus Wilson - 1831 - 516 pages
...shall trust in it. — Isaiah xiv. 32. My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! — Isaiah xxiv. 16. We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness,...the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation,... | |
 | 1819 - 948 pages
...overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity ; for brightness, fnif we walk in darkness. 10 of the sun. 13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sw al noon-day as in Ihe night ; vie are in desolale places as dead men. 1 \ We roar all like bears, and... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1821 - 352 pages
...us : as in this chapter, ver. 9 ! '' ' wait for light, but behold obscurity, for brightness, but vie walk in darkness : we grope for the wall like the blind, and stumble at noon-day as in the night. Our counsels are strangely darkened, and there is no right understanding... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1822 - 552 pages
...not well which way to go ; and we think to be cleared, but it fails us, as in this chapter, ver. 9, We wait for light but behold obscurity ; for brightness, but we walk in darkness ; we grope for the wall as blind, and stumble at noon-day as in the night; our counsels strangely darkened, and no right understanding... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 548 pages
...we have made us crooked paths ; whosoever goeth therein, shall not know peace. •• Therefore do we wait for light, but behold obscurity : for brightness, but we walk in darkness. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory : where is thy... | |
 | Robert Calef - 1823 - 324 pages
...said to have suffered by fire and halter at one heat. Thus we may say with the prophet, Isa. lix. 10, We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope...the night, we are in desolate places as dead men: and this by seeking to be wise above what is written, in framing to ourselves such crimes and such... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1823 - 554 pages
...not well which way to go; and we think to be cleared, but it fails us, as in this chapter, ver. 9, We wait for light but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness; we grope for the wall as blind, and stumble at noon-day as in the night; our counsels strangely darkened, and no right understanding... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope [h] as if we had no eyes : we stumble at noonday as in the night ; we are ¡a desolate places as dead men. 11. We (c) " Ride, &c." figuratively, to denote great exaltation and... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 814 pages
...that it cannot hear. Ver. 9. Therefore is judgement far from us, Neither doth justice overtake us ; We wait for light. but behold obscurity, For brightness, but we walk in darkness. So in chap. Iv. Ver. 2. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread, And your labour for... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 492 pages
...not well which way to go. And we think to be cleared, but it fails us: as in this chapter, ver. 9. We wait for light, but behold obscurity, for brightness, but we walk in darkness: we grope for the watt like the blind, and stumble at noon-day as in the night. Our counsels are strangely darkened,... | |
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Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in... 
