 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...balance. 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, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers." These and other similar passages in the word of God, afford us some representations of... | |
 | Child rearing - 1835 - 350 pages
...arid are counted as the small dust of the balance ; 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 grass' hoppers. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, who bringeth out... | |
 | Clement Carlyon - Physicians - 1836 - 340 pages
...very little thing. " To whom then will ye liken God ? Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him ? " It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. " Hast thou not known ? Hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the... | |
 | Augustus William Hare - 1836 - 526 pages
...will ye liken God ? or what likeness will ye compare to him ? Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spread eth them out as a tent to dwell in." (Isaiah xl. 18, 22.) To whom then, or to what created thing... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 744 pages
...transmitted through the immense distances around us, what is distance in the hand of the Creator, who " stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in ?''* But while we perceive that light, and heat, and gravitation, are continually penetrating through... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1836 - 368 pages
...transmitted through the immense distances around us, what is distance in the hand of the Creator, who " stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in ?"'* But while we perceive that light, and heat, and gravitation, are continually penetrating through... | |
 | Christmas Evans - Pennsylvania - 1837 - 388 pages
...and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand, or say to him, what doest thou? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...the inhabitants thereof are as grass-hoppers; that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in': that bringeth... | |
 | Auguste Louis Philippe Rochat - Hezekiah, king of Judah - 1837 - 284 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 grass-hoppers : that bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity." Isa. xl. 17, 22, 23.... | |
 | John Wilson - Trinity - 1837 - 320 pages
...in scales, and the hills in a balance? ... [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth; ... that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in, &c. 1 3. Isa. xliv. 24 : Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I... | |
 | John Dick - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 564 pages
...should turn in the hour of difficulty, and to whom the tribute of our grateful hearts should 'be paid. "It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal ? saith the Holy One."* LECTURE XIX. ON GOD. Immensity... | |
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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... 
