 | 1823 - 406 pages
...are counted as the small dnst of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing;, and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity.5' " Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning ?... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...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 they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? He who sitteth upon the... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1824 - 758 pages
...as the burning of lime ; as thorns cut up, shall they be burned in the fire." Isaiah xxxiii. 12. * " All nations before him are as nothing ; and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity." Isaiah xl. 17. And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...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 they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? He who sitteth upon the... | |
 | John Flavel - Providence and government of God - 1824 - 302 pages
...very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof for a burnt-offering. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity," Isa. xl. 15 — 17. When the holiest men have addressed themselves to him, see with what humility and... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 546 pages
...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 they are counted to HIM less than nothing and vanity : — he might have been applauded as possessing a mind as large, and nearly as well informed, as the... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 570 pages
...thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. — He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; he stretcheth... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1824 - 530 pages
...thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burntoffering. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity. Are the ideas too little, in these instances, for the words ? The prophets wrote in a poetic style... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 504 pages
...being his counsellor, hath taught him, &c.1 Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing, &c. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him, or in his presence, less than nothing.' From these awful and emplmtic.il questions God draws this conclusion•... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...that there is between him and us ; not only as he is " in heaven, while we are upon earth ; but as all nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity," Isa. xl. 17. It is founded in his absolute superiority over us, and our entire dependence upon him... | |
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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. 
