The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was... The Spectator - Page 374by Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 506 pages
...[was] I to the lame ; / directed the ignorant \ 6 and perplexed, and helped the -weak and the feeble. I [was] a father to the poor : and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out ; I was not only a patron, but a father to the poor, providing for him, as vtU as protecting him ;... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...administerirg justice, were more conspicuous and 15 ornamental than my robes and ensigns of honour. I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame ; / directed the ignorant 16 and fte rplcxc d, and hel/ied the weak and the fer ble. I [was] a father... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1806 - 342 pages
...fmg for j<.»y. I put on righteounefs, and it clothed me ; my judgement was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. 1 was a lather in the poor : and the caufe which I knew not I fearch. ed out. 4. ...Doth not God fee... | |
 | John Logan - Sermons, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...that " cried, the fatherless, and him that had none to help " him. I was eyes to the blind, feet was [ to the ." lame : I was a father to the poor, and the cause " which I knew not, I searched out. The stranger " did not lodge in the street; I opened rny doors to " the traveller. The loins of the... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1808 - 474 pages
...blessing of him that 'was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing with joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the...poor ; and the cause which I knew not, I searched out *. — Thus while the righteous fiourisheth like a tree .planted by the rivers of water, he bringeth... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame ; I »'as a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched out. Did not I weep for him that... | |
 | 1808 - 512 pages
...I caused the widow's heart to sing for jey-. B was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to theU*me. L was a father to> the- poor: and the cause which I knew not 1 searched- out. Benevolence is- to' be judged of by proportion, by income, by self-denial. Hence1... | |
 | Bible - 1808 - 558 pages
...sickness, or hurt by accidents, and to guide them in their way that were blind, or ignorant of it, says, / was eyes to the blind) and feet was I to the lame, Job xxix. 15. • Sec Numb. ixvi. 10. Every body, accordingly, at all acquainted with the nature of... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet wan I to the lame. 161 destroyed for want of judgment 24 He that 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. 18 Then I said, I shall... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 1102 pages
...The blefling of him that was ready to perifli came upon me, and I caufed the widow's heart to fing for joy. " I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame." After leaving Buxton, paffed through Middleton dale, a deep narrow chafm between two vaft cliffs, which... | |
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