| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 Seiten
...eminence above all things is mod nobly reprefented, when he " lies upon the circle of the earth, and 44 the inhabitants thereof are as grafshoppers : •• All nations before him are as the drop of a bin <* ket, and as the fmall duft of the balance : He " takes up the ifles as a very little thing ;... | |
| Robert MacCulloch - 1800 - 688 Seiten
...and filver, 'filver, and timber, and imagine them to have created the earth. 22 It is he that fitted* upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grafshoppers ; that flretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and fpreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. The great... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 Seiten
...the earth in a measure. He weigheth the! mountains m scales; and the hills in a balance. He sitteth upon the circle of the earth; and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Ethold 'all nations, are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the srnali dust of... | |
| 1815 - 436 Seiten
...that, though the Almighty is '' the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity;" though "He rideth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;" though before Him ''the nations are us a drop in the bucket, and the small dust of the... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 Seiten
...ear, but now mine eye seelh thee\ : I see the eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient God, who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; who spreadeth out the heavens as a tent to dwell in, and looks down on the nations as... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 Seiten
...ear, but now mine eye seeth thee^ : I see the eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient God, who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; who spreadcth out the heavens as a tent to dwell in, and looks down on the nations as... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1803 - 422 Seiten
...nations before him are as the drop of a bucket. He taketh up the isles as a very little thing. He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. What loftiness of expression ! The deference we pay to the sacred writers is not founded... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Mitchell - 1805 - 260 Seiten
...altogether immaculate, yet most propitious to sinful man. Let us hear her delineations. " He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers before him: he stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadcth them out as a tent... | |
| Elizabeth Hamilton - 1806 - 292 Seiten
...beginning ? " Have ye not understood from the " foundations of the earth ? 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... | |
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