 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.  Paraphrases on hard texts - Page 370by Joseph Hall - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Child rearing - 1835 - 492 pages
...all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree...for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.' " " Then," said Henry Milner, " you think, uncle, that all the holy people who lie now buried in the... | |
 | 1835 - 312 pages
...the place of my feet glorious." Chap. Iv. 13 : " Instead of the thorn shall come up the _/?r-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree...for an everlasting sign, that shall not be cut off" ! " Let those now deck, who never deck'd before ; And those, who always deck'd, now deck the more '."... | |
 | Edward Greswell - Bible - 1834 - 512 pages
...the thorn shall come " up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come " up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the LORD " for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not " be cut off P." Isaiah xi. 6 — 8 : " The wolf also shall dwell with " the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down... | |
 | Church history - 1836
...and the desert rejoice and blossom as the rose ; and instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree...for an everlasting sign, that shall not be cut off." CHRISTIAN TREASURY. Persevere. — Believers, go on ; your last step will be on the head of the old... | |
 | William HOWELS - 1836 - 556 pages
...Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." Oh ! may God teach us perpetually to take him at his word. Again ; another reason why we should wait... | |
 | Religion - 1836 - 432 pages
...Instead of tne thorn shall come up the fir free, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." But for effecting such a transformation, there must be a degree of labor and painstaking, which very... | |
 | Christian biography - 1836
...Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree ; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." But for effecting such a transformation, there must be a degree of labor and painstaking, which very... | |
 | James Hough - 1836 - 302 pages
...Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree : and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cutoff. (Isa. Iv. 12, 13.) 1 The punctuation of this passage has been altered thus — For the creature... | |
 | 1837 - 392 pages
...all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come "up the myrtle-tree...for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." Isa. Iv. 12, 13. TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. ON NEGINOTH. A PSALM. A SONG. 1 GOD be merciful to us, and... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1837 - 596 pages
...we have a word of encouragement and of promise, " Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree,...for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." The pruning-knife may be sharply and unsparingly applied, but it shall lop off every unfruitful branch... | |
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