 | Joseph Priestley - 1782 - 478 pàgines
...inhabitants " thereof are as grafshoppers ; that ftretch" eth out the heavens as a curtain, and " fpreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : " That bringeth the...nothing ; he " maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. " Lift up your eyes on high, and behold " who hath created thefe things, that bring" eth out their... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 pàgines
...Behold the nations are as the drop of a bucket. Behold he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth^ and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. words, the lofty words of the text, require two JL sorts of observations : the first are necessary... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1803 - 422 pàgines
...Behold, the nations are as the drop of a bucket. Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers.. The prophet's design in describing the Deity with so much magnificence is to discountenance idolatry,... | |
 | 1803 - 466 pàgines
...In Scripture it is styled the heavens. — " Who stretcheth out " the heavens like a curtain!* — That stretcheth out the heavens " as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in f." How far this expansion of the heavens extends, is another ques-» tion. That portion of it diffused... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1806 - 292 pàgines
...Amos, " Have ye not known ? " Have ye not heard? Hath it nat " been told you from the beginning ? " Have ye not understood from the " foundations of the...spreadeth them out " as a tent to dwell in : that bring" eth the princes to nothing : he " maketh the judges of the earth as ." vanity. He shall blow... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pàgines
...the earth ? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof arc as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens...curtain,, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the eartli as vanity. 24 Yea, they... | |
 | John Dick - 1811 - 302 pàgines
...the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out tl'ie heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in ; that bringeth the princes to noug.ht; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity."f In all these instances the language is \ b.... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pàgines
...all the gods of the nations are idols 5 but the Lord made the heavens. (m) God is greater than man. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. («) Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 468 pàgines
...Behold the nations are as the drop of a bucket. Behold he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers." The prophet's design in describing the Deity •with so much magnificence is to discountenance idolatry,... | |
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges... 
