Popular Commentary of the Bible: The poetical and the prophetical booksConcordia Publishing House, 1924 |
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... thought being that , just as a day seems all the gloomier and more dismal after it has once been lit up by a flash of light , so the dismal bitterness of darkness should settle upon the day of his birth as a form of retribu- tion for ...
... thought being that , just as a day seems all the gloomier and more dismal after it has once been lit up by a flash of light , so the dismal bitterness of darkness should settle upon the day of his birth as a form of retribu- tion for ...
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... thought of a ter- rible thing , he was immediately struck by it , and that which I was afraid of is come unto me , if he dreaded a thing , he was im- mediately overtaken by it , he was obliged to endure all that he had ever considered ...
... thought of a ter- rible thing , he was immediately struck by it , and that which I was afraid of is come unto me , if he dreaded a thing , he was im- mediately overtaken by it , he was obliged to endure all that he had ever considered ...
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... thought is really conditional : If I have sinned , what harm could thereby strike Thee ; what detriment would be caused to Thy great glory and majesty ? Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee , a target , or mark , for every blow ...
... thought is really conditional : If I have sinned , what harm could thereby strike Thee ; what detriment would be caused to Thy great glory and majesty ? Why hast Thou set me as a mark against Thee , a target , or mark , for every blow ...
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... thought of God's overwhelming and often apparently arbitrary power now prompts Job to speak in an almost defiant manner . V. 13 . If God will not withdraw His anger , rather , affirmatively , " He will not cause it to return , " He will ...
... thought of God's overwhelming and often apparently arbitrary power now prompts Job to speak in an almost defiant manner . V. 13 . If God will not withdraw His anger , rather , affirmatively , " He will not cause it to return , " He will ...
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... thought they had the monopoly ; I am not inferior to you , he was not meaner in wisdom than they and there- fore did not have to give way one inch ; yea , who knoweth not such things as these ? What they had brought forward was a matter ...
... thought they had the monopoly ; I am not inferior to you , he was not meaner in wisdom than they and there- fore did not have to give way one inch ; yea , who knoweth not such things as these ? What they had brought forward was a matter ...
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Page 312 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
Page 372 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 181 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Page 61 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Page 20 - As the waters fail from the sea, And the flood decayeth and drieth up : So man lieth down, and riseth not. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be raised out of their sleep.
Page 415 - Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
Page 352 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Page 210 - He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Page 148 - I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
Page 355 - He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench : he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth : and the isles shall wait for his law.