 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?  An Exposition of the Creed - Page 74by John Pearson - 1797Full view - About this book
 | Francis Collins - Mediterranean Region - 1809 - 354 pages
...omnipotent and gracious Being, who, to use the sublimity of Scripture, " Gathered the winds in his fist, who *' hath measured the waters in the hollow " of his hand, and meted out heaven with " the span, and comprehended the dust of " the earth in a measure, and weighed the " mountains in scales,... | |
 | John Dick - Bible - 1811 - 302 pages
...fill our minds with astonishment and awe, than this representation of the greatness of Jehovah : " Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand ? and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,... | |
 | George Adams - Astronomy - 1812 - 586 pages
...consider the immensity of his power, who regulates and governs all these wide extended motions ; " who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span." It was a new star discovered by Hipparchus, the chief of the ancient astronomers, that induced... | |
 | George Adams - Astronomy - 1812 - 552 pages
...consider the immensity of his power, who regulates and governs all these wide extended motions ; " who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span." It was a new star discovered by Hipparchus, the chief of the ancient astronomers, that induced... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...Creation. hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. Chap. xl. 12, 13. ' Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand ? and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales,... | |
 | 1816 - 600 pages
...of the earth, by representing the Creator as often executing in detail his own Almighty decrees. " Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains m scales,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 468 pages
...with so much pomp. The prophet's notions of God are diffused through all the verses of the text. " Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted < ut heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of tile earth in a measure ? Who hath weighed the... | |
 | George Daniel - 1813
...In the realms of peace and love. j Recitative. (Handel.) Mr. BELLAMY. - ..-- He measur'd the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out Heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the % Mountains in scales, and... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...approaching to a true idea of the Infinite and Eternal ; who is above and unlimited by time and space ; " who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted oujf the heaven with a span, and taketh up the isles as a very little thing!" and in whose sight "... | |
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