Sophia de Lissau: A Portraiture of the Jews, of the Nineteenth Century; Being an Outline of Their Religious and Domestic Habits; with Explanatory Notes

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T. Gardiner, 1829 - 268 pages
 

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Page 112 - Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Page 156 - THE preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Page 206 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Page 1 - There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. "There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
Page 120 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 103 - Bring no more vain oblations : incense is an abomination unto me ; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with : it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Page 156 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 206 - The harp, and the viol, the tabret, and the pipe, and wine are in their feasts ; but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands; Isaiah v.
Page 11 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Page 242 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.

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