 | Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 488 pages
...sense and proper apprehensions of Jehovah ? He is nothing, and less than nothing and vanity. " Behold the nations are as a drop of' " a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance ; " behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Le" ban. *n is not sufficient... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 240 pages
...of this Jehovah of the illiterate Jews ! before whom, to use this poet's own words, all other gods are " as a drop of a bucket," and are counted " as the small dust of the balance." Had I been acquainted with this wonderful volume, while I was writing my treatise on the Pathetic,... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 560 pages
...apprehensions of Jehovah ? He is nothing, and less than nothing and vanity. " Behold the nations are ao a drop of " a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance ; " hehold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Le" banon is not sufficient... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 524 pages
..." the earth in a meafure, weighed the mountains in fcales and " the hills in a balance ? — Behold the nations are as a drop of a " bucket, and are counted as the finall duft of the balance i " behold he taketh up the ifles as a very little thing. And " Labanon... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing; and... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1806 - 406 pages
...He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Behold all nations, are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance. All before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. He bringeth... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding ? 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1807 - 384 pages
...devoted himself, is the King of Kings : he it is, in whose presence all the potentates of the earth, are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance, Isa. xl. 15. He it is, by whose supreme authority kings reign, and princes decree justice, Prov. viii.... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...cities of Judah, concerning the Messiah to be exhibited in the flesh, Behold your God. XL. 1 5 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. What needest thou care, O Israel, for all the world, if thy God be tor thee ? Alas, how poor a thing... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...over-pressed with the conscience of his own unworthmess, such a one will be pity and relieve. XL. 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. What needest thou care, O Israel, for all the world, if thy God be for thee ? Alas, how poor a thing... | |
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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 
