 | 1817 - 368 pàgines
...instead of relying upon the merits of Christ, is to trust in the staff of a Ivroken reed ; on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it? But then, on the contrary, how can we avoid feeling and cherishing the most delightful confidence,... | |
 | 1817 - 1082 pàgines
...me? 21 'Now, behold, thou f trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which _'`' / 'c' , , , . so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. 22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in c^RTSr... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 460 pàgines
...against me ? Now, be-. hold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it : so is Pharoah king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. But if ye say unto me, we trust in the LORD... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 476 pàgines
...plundered it. And, in all their leagues and alliances, Egypt was to them as a broken reed. Isa. xxxvi. 6, " whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it." In Egypt, the infant Saviour, with his mother, found an asylum from the blood-thirsty Herod. On all... | |
 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pàgines
...thou trustestl behold, thou trustest on the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, upon which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so is Pharaoh, King of Egypt, unto all that trust upon him. Now make an agreement with me with a... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1822 - 486 pàgines
...is this wherein " thou trustest? For lo ! thou trustest in the staff of this " broken reed, on which if a man lean, it will go into " his hand, and pierce it !" ... But is every hope thus illusive? Must we inevitably resign ourselves to despondency in .the... | |
 | 1878 - 1002 pàgines
...Now, behold, thou (Hezekiah) tnntest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even npon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so is Pharaoh King of Egypt unto all that trust on him." (2 Kings xviii. 21.) Jews and Assyrians... | |
 | Thomas Gaisford - 1824 - 650 pàgines
...an order to exhort Hezekiah to submission. " Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt ; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it; so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. But if thou say to me, we trust in the Lord our... | |
 | 1902 - 742 pàgines
...is a gigantic swindle; and the present imperfectly reformed House of Commons is but " a broken reed, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it." It is divided now, as was the Roman senate in the days of Cicero, into rncdi, boni, quieti and fautores... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 486 pàgines
...any remainder of principle among us, left to act upon. We have trusted in the staff of a broken reed, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it *. We have forsaken God, the fountain of living waters, and hewed us out broken cisterns, that can... | |
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Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him. 
