 | Alexander Keith - 1843 - 580 pages
...Annexed to these words is the question concerning it, " How long wilt thou cut thyself, 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... | |
 | 1843 - 432 pages
...Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley : how long wilt thou cut thyself ? 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... | |
 | 1844 - 484 pages
...There could never be a greater occasion to plead, as the prophet does, Jer. xlvii. 6, 7; " O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? Put up thyself into the scabbard, rest, and be still." But the answer was ready, How can it be quiet, when... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1844 - 492 pages
...Annexed to these words is the question concerning it, " How long wilt thou cut thyself, 0 thou sword of the Lord ; how long will it be ere thou be quiet 1 Put up thyself into thy scabbard ; rest, and be still. How can it be quiet, soeing the Lord hath... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1844 - 584 pages
...godliness is making way. And, therefore, we will not say, in the words of the prophet, " 0 thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet 1 put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still." We will rather say with the Psalmist to Messiah,... | |
 | J. Walker - 1846 - 352 pages
...vii. 11, 12. 'Pa. xlv. 3. k Ps. cxlix. 6. The Sword of the Lord is filled with blood. 1 O thou Sword of the Lord, How long will it be ere thou be quiet 1 put up thyself into thy scabbard, Kest, and be still. — How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 pages
...thy victory I'' The following is an instance of personification and apostrophe united: "O thou sword of the Lord! how long will it be ere thou be quiet ? put thyself up into thy scabbard, rest and be still ! How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1847 - 336 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... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1847 - 466 pages
...Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley : how long wilt thou cut thyself? 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. How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1848 - 584 pages
...passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high." (Hab. iii. 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. xlviL 6.) David uses personification most... | |
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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. 
