 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...sufficiently affected, call for the mourning women, which are used to attend as mourners at funerals, that they may come ; and send for cunning [women,] that they may come : 1 * And let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that their wee/iing may affect us, that... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...anguish and sorrow; and will bring upon them the most grievous calamity, that can be conceived. IX. 17 Call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may fame. Call for those mourning women, that are wont to be hired for the public lamentations at funerals;... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...talks of these hypocrites: " Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for mourning women, and send for cunning women that they may come, and let them make haste and take up a wailing for us." But what has all this to do with a saint of God? he is quite another thing; the law proceeds... | |
 | George Campbell - Bible - 1811 - 558 pages
...destruction of the children of Zion, by exhibiting God as thus addressing the people (ix 17, 18.): Call for the mourning women, that they may come ; and send for cunning women : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run dovsn with tears, and... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Africa - 1817 - 528 pages
...describes at the death of Hector 3 ; and they are frequently alluded to in the Sacred Scriptures':—"CALL FOR THE MOURNING WOMEN, THAT THEY MAY COME; AND SEND FOR CUNNING WOMEN, THAT THEY MAY COME I AND LET THEM MAKE HASTE, AND TAKE UP A WAILING FOR US, THAT OUR EYES MAY RUN DOWN WITH TEARS, AND... | |
 | Hannah Adams - Bible - 1824 - 238 pages
...proves, that hiring female mourners was formerly the custom among the Jews. " Call for the mourning women, that they may come, and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters." The funeral ceremonies... | |
 | Hannah Adams - Bible - 1824 - 240 pages
...proves, that hiring female mourners was formerly the custom among the Jews. " Call for the mourning women, that they may come, and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters." The funeral ceremonies... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 612 pages
...we learn from the following passages of the prophets: Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, consider ye and call for the MOURNING WOMEN, that they may come, and...come; and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eye-lids gush out with waters. (Jer. ix. 17,... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pages
...of Jeremiah indisputably refers; and shews the custom to be derived from a very remote antiquity : " Call for the mourning women that they may come ; and...come, and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eye-lids gush out with waters." d b Eussel's... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1072 pages
...send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. 17 Thus eaith'.the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come ; and send for cunning women, that they may come : 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears,... | |
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disorderly crowd rather than a procession. First came a large party of women, closely veiled, and howling, the hired mourners, doubtless, of the occasion. " Call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come... 
