 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 468 sayfa
...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,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 462 sayfa
...dust of the earth in a measure. He weigheth the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Behold all nations, are as the drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance. All... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 sayfa
...becomes foolish." Hi» transcendent eminence above all things is most nobly represented, when he " sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers : All nations before him are as the dr<.;> of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance: Hr takes... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 sayfa
...— " To whom will ye liken God ? or what likeness will ye compare unto Him? It is He that sitteth on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 sayfa
...? It is he who sitteth on the Circle of the Earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers, that stretcheth out the Heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in !" The Author of the Book of Job possessed a genius of the highest (Jrder. That story throughout is... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1846 - 498 sayfa
...the " Alpha and the Omega, — the beginning and the ending, — the first and the last," — " who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers." This tendency of all things to return to the fountain of life from which they proceed, is caused by... | |
 | 1815 - 614 sayfa
...not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yea, they... | |
 | Alexander Murray (Schoolmaster) - 1815 - 564 sayfa
...dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants'...that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in. — Great f is the LOrd, and of great power: his understanding... | |
 | Robert Morehead - 1816 - 492 sayfa
...nations before him " are as nothing, and they are counted " to him less than nothing and vanity. ** It is he that sitteth upon the circle of " the earth,...the inhabitants thereof " are as grasshoppers ; that streicheth " out the heavens as a curtain, and spread" eth them out as a tent to dwell in : that "... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1817 - 294 sayfa
...earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a scale, and the hills in a balance. Isa. xl. 12. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Isa. xl. 224 Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out ; he that... | |
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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... 
