 | Jonathan Edwards - 1824 - 432 pages
...men skipped like rams and like lambs. It will * Page 98. prove, that Jer. xlvii. 6, " O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest and be still ;" means that men should put up themselves into a scabbard,... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 546 pages
...peace, because than hast heard, 0 my ioul, the sound of tJte trumpet, the alarm of war. — O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ? Put thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be ,-.////. t When Israel was exposed to calamities, all the neighbouring... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 488 pages
...devour flesh.' Beholding such an adversary on his way, well might the Prophet exclaim, ' O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ? Put up thyself into thy scabbard : rest, and be still.' Yet ' how can it be quiet ?' since the text leads... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...cxix. 91. Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word, cxlviii. 8. 0 thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ; put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...war went on, we might almost hear voices crying out, in the words of the old prophet : " O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? Put up thyself into thy scabbard ; rest, and be still ! " But the answering voice seemed not less audible:... | |
 | 1826 - 664 pages
...Zech. xiii. 7. There could never be a greater occasion to plead, as the prophet does; " O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ?" Jer. xlvii. 6, 7. Put up thyself into the scabbard, rest and be still. But the answer was ready,... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...is cut off with fafe' the remnant of their valley : how lone wilt thou cut thyself? 6 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? f put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and +H* gottabe still. ' J 7 J How can it be quiet, seeing... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1831 - 240 pages
...the deep uttered his voice, and lift up his hands on high." (Hab. ch. iii. v. 10.) — " O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ? Put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest and be still." (Jer. ch. xlvii. v. 6. — In the second book of... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...remaineth ; for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor. 6 O them sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? Put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. 7 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 pages
...particularly fitted. Hence, in the sacred scriptures, we find some very remarkable instances : ' O thou sword of the Lord ! how long will it be ere thou be quiet ! put thyself up in thy scabbard ; rest, and be still ! How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it... | |
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O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet ? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. 
