The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? The Living Age - Page 1891912Full view - About this book
| Henry Martyn - 1839 - 928 pages
...waste away the body in labouring and preaching all the day long. Let me say now, as in the morning, " Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariot?" Then eternal seriousness shall pervade my soul, and I shall join his perfect creatures in... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1840 - 468 pages
...cross-paths stationed ?" — Prov. viii. 1, 2. And of the second ; " The mother of Sisera looked out at the window, and cried through the lattice ; ' Why is his...long in coming ; Why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? ' " — Judges v. 28. Allegory appears, sometimes in its simplest form of an accumulation of connected... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1840 - 468 pages
...he bowed, there he fell dead. " Fiom the window she looked forth, she cried, The mother of Sisera, through the lattice ; ' Why is his chariot so long in coming ? Why tarry the wheels of his chariot ? ' Her prudent women answered her, — Yea, she herself gave answer to herself, — ' Have... | |
| Mary Botham Howitt - 1840 - 554 pages
...Where he bow'd, there he fell dead. From the window she look'd forth, she cried, The mother of Sisem, through the lattice: "Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariot ?" Her prudent women answer'd her — Yea, she herself gave answer to herself— "Have they... | |
| Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 400 pages
...Where he bow'd, there he fell dead. From the window she look'd forth, she cried, The mother of Sisera, through the lattice : " Why is his chariot so long in coming ? Why tarry the wheels of his chariot?" Her prudent women answer'd her— Yea, she herself gave answer to herself— " Have they... | |
| Thaïs E. Morgan - 1994 - 218 pages
...(27). And the third, half in sympathy, half gloatingly, renders the anguished voice of his mother: "Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?" (28). Together, these passages unearth a Wordsworthian interest in female passion as something other... | |
| Nehama Aschkenasy - 1994 - 292 pages
...name, but in her role as Sisera's mother: "The mother of Sisera looked out at the window, / and moaned through the lattice / Why is his chariot so long in coming? / Why are the hoofbeats of his steeds so tardy? / Her wise ladies answered her, / she even returned answer... | |
| 1856 - 210 pages
...materializing ? No, but " souls that burn with love to Christ, who, with the mother of Sisera, cry through the lattice ' Why is his chariot so long in coming ? why tarry the wheels of his chariot ?' and with the spouse, ' make haste, my Beloved, and be thou like to a roe or a young hart... | |
| John S. Munday, Frances Wohlenhaus-Munday - 1995 - 116 pages
...he fell dead. But do not overlook verse 28: Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera gazed through the lattice: "Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?" Note that Sisera's mother's anguish is recorded in the Song of Deborah.... | |
| William Gerber - 1997 - 252 pages
...mother (the author reported) pondered gloomily as follows about Sisera' s failure to return home: (765) "Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariot?" Homer quoted the following speech of Achilles to Odysseus regarding death: (766) Nay, speak... | |
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