| Edward Bickersteth - 1845 - 482 pągines
...While Jonah was waiting to see what would become of Nineveh, God prepared a gourd, that it might he a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But when the gourd withered, he was so angry as even to wish to die. He manifested more care for his gourd... | |
| 1845 - 518 pągines
...miraculous act, and that the kikiun, whatever it was, came forth out of the earth by God's bidding ("and the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah"), without any regard to the ordinary laws of vegetable life. It seems almost impossible of belief that... | |
| Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar - 1846 - 640 pągines
...sooner. Sometimes a worldly comfort is like Jonah's gourd—it came up over his head to be a shadow to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding...next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. So our worldly comfort sometimes grows up over our head like a shadow, and we are exceeding glad of... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - 1848 - 412 pągines
...thereof.' " ISAIAH i. 8. " The daughter of Zion is left...as a lodge in a of cucumbers." JONAH iv. 6, 7. " And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to...over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head ... So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next... | |
| 1848 - 796 pągines
...delivered. He sat him down on the east of the city, to see if, after all, it could escape. " And the Lord prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah,...that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver of its deadly character, but also in making it eatable. It is highly probable that the plant now known... | |
| George Allen (writer of verse.) - 1848 - 202 pągines
...on my soul thine image stamp, Then shall I die to live. SERMON BY THE REV. J. HUGHES. " So Jonah was glad of the gourd. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and smote the gourd that it withered."—JONAH iv. 0, 7. God is the source of every good, Permitter, too,... | |
| 1848 - 994 pągines
...»badow over his head, to deliver him from hi» grief. So Joiiab wa» exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and il •mote the gourd that it withered. ariee, that Uod prepared a vehement head of Jonah, that he fainti^,... | |
| Patrick Fairbairn - 1849 - 288 pągines
...slender bits of wood, and presenting many openings, through which either wind or heat may penetrate. " And the Lord God prepared a gourd,* and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might he a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. [_Mark here the proof incidentally given... | |
| Robert Mimpriss - 1849 - 606 pągines
...better for me to die than to live. 6 become of the city. And the Lotui God prepared a gourd, and made if to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his lie.ni. to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 5 So Jonah went out... | |
| John Kitto - 1849 - 842 pągines
...Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head ' (ver. 6). ' But God prepared a worm when tinmorning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered ' (ver. T). And in ver. 10 it is said of the gourd that it ' came up in a night, and perished in a... | |
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