| William Ward - 1817 - 424 pages
...? or what likeness will ye compare to him ? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and nre counted as the small dust of the balance : all nations before him are as nothing, and are counted to him less than nothing, and "vanity." But that idols are not necessary, even to the rude... | |
| 1818 - 948 pages
...in the p.ith of judgment, and taught him knowI' la;e, and shewed to him the way of understanding? lo of the women, to the custody of Shaasligaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: s behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor... | |
| John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 422 pages
...in a balance ? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught Him ? 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... | |
| Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1818 - 616 pages
...meafure, and weighed the mountains injcales, and the kills in a balance ; — before whom the natioiis are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall dujl of a balance ; — yea, before whom all nations are as nothing, and are counted to him lefs... | |
| 610 pages
...him in 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 takcth up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the... | |
| Ebenezer Henderson - Iceland - 1819 - 634 pages
...whose all-creative word they owe their existence ; who dwells in light inaccessible ; and before whom " the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance !" Having stopped some time in order to contemplate the sublimity of this spectacle, I approached the... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 334 pages
...comparison 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.' Hadlbeen acquainted with this wonderful volume, while I was writing my treatise on the Pathetic, I... | |
| Edward Cooper - 1820 - 874 pages
...Him in 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. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor... | |
| Congregational churches - 1832 - 480 pages
...themselves to the reproof of Isaiah, "To whom will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare to him? Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...balance: all nations before him are as nothing, and are counted as less than nothing and vanity." But what shall we say when these idols are monstrous... | |
| Willis Harris - Methodist Church - 1821 - 344 pages
...a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance"— that He with whom " the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance, who taketh up the isles as a very little thing," was his FATHER. He counted the sincere followers of... | |
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