 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
 | Charles Spear - 1841 - 412 pages
...all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come np the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree...name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut ofT.' What grand and striking language ! How feeble is all the imagery in human compositions, when... | |
 | Charles Spear - 1841 - 416 pages
...their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come np the myrtle-tree : and it shall be to the LORD for...for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.' What grand and striking language ! How feeble is all the imagery in human compositions, when compared... | |
 | 1846 - 446 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 he cut off'." Then the little stone cutout of the mountain without hands shall roll onward, impelled... | |
 | 1842
...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.) The invitation is, " Ho ! every one that thirsteth" — every one who is humbled under a... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Religion - 1978 - 644 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. Selections from THE NEW TESTAMENT Jerusalem? ßethphage - Bethany?, ;.-: |f«¡v*HMn i Gomorrah?] :... | |
 | Johanna Manley - Devotional calendars - 1990 - 1144 pages
...of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according ISAIAH 12:3-6 See Royal Hours - Sixth Hour. I CORINTHIANS 10 BRETHREN, I DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE UNAWARE... | |
 | Louise Schleiner - Fiction - 1995 - 286 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 cut off" (Is. 55:13). More distinctly than was the case with this last example (which might be a coincidence),... | |
 | Douglas Unger - Fiction - 1995 - 292 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." "Amen," he said, closing the Bible. People weren't sure all at once that the prayer was finished, and... | |
 | Avi Erlich - Religion - 2010 - 277 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. (Isaiah 55) In this passage it is difficult to say where metaphors for an intellectual relationship... | |
 | James Nohrnberg - Religion - 1995 - 426 pages
...longer speak (3:16, 7:12, 26:6, 9). God institutes some new thing. Deutero-Isaiah concludes similarly: "it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off (Isa. 55:13b). Israel's deliverer will have acted again, without recourse to intermediaries, as he... | |
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