 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...the heavens like a veil or curtain/ We have the same allusion in the sublime strains of Isaiah : " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.g " The court is for the most part surrounded with a cloister, over which, when the house has a... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...xl. 22. " He that sitteth on the circle," or above the orbit, " of the earth, (Comp. Job xxii. 14.) and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ;...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent, to dwell in." If we may suppose that the allusion is not to a common tent, but to the azure covering of the sacred... | |
 | Samuel Saunders (Baptist Minister.) - Lord's prayer - 1825 - 462 pages
...upon the wings of the wind. He sitteth on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of the earth are as grasshoppers : that stretcheth out the heavens...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in ! Will God indeed dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain him... | |
 | Josiah Priest - Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 660 pages
...dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? He stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in,' Isaiah *]. made them all : i •, -Let every thing that hath bn i!.i And - Bless the TIT :B. ok. of... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1826 - 414 pages
...hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and weighed the mountains in scales 1 He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants...grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, that fainteth not, neither is weary." " The Lord made the heavens, the heaven of heavens, with all... | |
 | Charles Wellbeloved - Devotional exercises - 1826 - 278 pages
...who sitteth upon "the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants " thereof are as grasshoppers ; who stretcheth " out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth " them out as a tent to dwell in !" In the contemplation of such power, my mind is lost, my faculties are unequal to the full conception... | |
 | William Wake - Catechisms, English - 1827 - 454 pages
...knowest; for thou, even thou, only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men. Isaiah, xl. 22. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Psalm cxxxix. 7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? or whither shall Iflee from thy presence ? "... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pages
...All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity." " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers : that stretchetl] out the heaven as a curtain ; and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in." " Hast thou... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - Sermons, English - 1827 - 666 pages
...Behold, the nations are as the drop of a bucket. Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers.' The prophet's design in describing the Deity with so much magnificence is to discountenance idolatry,... | |
 | 1827 - 842 pages
...titleih upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are ai grasshoppers : that stretchetb 0 + GuG @~? ; -It That bringelh the princes to nothing : lie maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yea,... | |
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges... 
