 | George Rogers - 1843 - 372 pàgines
...from the hnrd bonaa«e wherein thou wast made to serve, That thou shall take up this proverb *s:"nst the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor...the golden city ceased ! The LORD hath broken the staffof the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual... | |
 | John William Cunningham - 1843 - 330 pàgines
...adorned the periods of poetry, and had echoed in the shouts of nations — " How hath the oppressor ceased ! . . . the Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers — how art thou fallen from heaven, O'Lucifer, son of the morning f how art tholt cast down to the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pàgines
...in all passages which approach the sublime. Examples. " Thou shall take up this proverb against fhe king of Babylon, and say, how hath the oppressor ceased!...The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and ihe sceptre of the rulers. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1850 - 560 pàgines
...from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4. That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of...hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased ! 5. The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6. He who smote the... | |
 | 1855 - 630 pàgines
...Babylon, and said, " How hath the oppressor ceased ! " so may we, and with them, we feel bound to add, absence, he inquired, " Where have you been ? " "I have been with Chr ruler : he who smote the people in wrath, with a continual stroke ; he that ruled the nations in anger"... | |
 | 1915 - 862 pàgines
...the tremendous words of a greater prophet than Sylvanus Conifer : "Thou shalt take up this parable against the King of Babylon, and say. How hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold ceased! . . . "The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1845 - 638 pàgines
...the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah, where the prophet thus describes the fall of the Assyrian empire: " Thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of...city ceased ! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wickedj and the sceptre of the rulers. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke: he... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1845 - 166 pàgines
...houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. Thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of...oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased ! " The conqueror of Babylon was foretold by name ; a rare circumstance in prophecy: "Thus saith the Lord to... | |
 | Thomas Dale - 1845 - 256 pàgines
...hand, is my indignation;" 0 and yet once more, in a passage where "rod" is synonymous with sceptre, "The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers." p The " rod" or " sceptre," consequently, is the ensign of office or authority ; the " staff" is the... | |
 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1846 - 128 pàgines
...fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased — the golden city ceased !" When, since the days of Nebuchadnezzar, to the present hour, has Israel been thus carried back to... | |
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And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy... 
