Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers... A Treasury of English Prose - Page 29edited by - 1920 - 237 pagesFull view - About this book
| Benjamin Jenks - 1803 - 382 pages
...Humility. OMO^T, High God, infinitely glorious above all our expressions or our thoughts! Thou sjttest on the Circle of the earth,, and the inhabitants thereof are as -grasshoppers.; yea,, before thee, all nations $rre .a^no.thingj and counted to . thee less .than nothing and vanity.... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God ? or what likeness will ye compare uuto him? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers -T that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, that spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : that,... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...; he t/inics a 21 wooden god better than none. Have ye not known ? even you, idolatrous Gentiles ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from...not understood from the foundations of the earth? have you not learned by observation, by reflection, by tradition from the earliest ages, that the great... | |
| John Mitchell - 1805 - 260 pages
...generous, altogether immaculate, yet most propitious to sinful man. Let us hear her delineations. " He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers before him: he stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadcth them out as a tent... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1806 - 406 pages
...dust of the earth in a measure. He iveigheth the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Behold all nations, are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance. All... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...seeketh unto him a M cunning cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. ^ 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not...'ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof arc as grasshoppers... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1809 - 356 pages
...church, even in the latter days, we may still ask, in the triumphant terms of the Jewish prophet — Have ye not known ? Have ye not heard ? Hath it not...from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the founda- / turn of the earth ?f • • But, though this subject was opened by the old prophets, so... | |
| 1864 - 868 pages
...serpent's head " — divulged the ulterior purposes of the Father of mercies, and the God of all grace ; " Have ye not known — have ye not heard, hath it not been told you from the beginning, that the Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1809 - 356 pages
...we may still ask, in the triumphant terms of the Jewish prophet — Have ye not known ? Have ye riot heard ? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundation of the earth ?f * • But, though this subject was opened by the old prophets, so far as... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...become* foolish." His transcendent eminence above all things is most nobly represented, when he " sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers : AH nations before him are as the drop of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance : He takes... | |
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