| 1809 - 556 pages
...their laughing-stock, nor mock at my reliance on thee, and patient submission to thee. •' ' Ver. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth : because thou didst it.\ For I did not complain, but silently endured their insolent and scurrilous language, together with... | |
| Thomas Brooks - 1810 - 342 pages
...remembrance, and is humbled, or bowed down in me.' So David, when he was under the rod, could say, ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it.' I have read of one, who when any thing fell out prosperously, would read over the lamentation of Jeremiah,... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pages
...was able to say unto God in the sincerity of his heart, after he had gone through the fiery trial, "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it." While Paul was returning from a long journey to Jerusalem, a certain prophet named Agabus forewarned... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 432 pages
...submission under sufferings the most acute, and that entire acquiescence in the sovereign will of God : " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it," Ps. xxxix. 9.' Witness that supernatural detachment from the world, which enables him to resign, without... | |
| 1813 - 502 pages
...i» his trial. And while he beheld the hand of God afflicting him, he was filled with submission. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." In this conduct of David under his trials, we havemarked out our duty in similar eireumstanees. It... | |
| William Jay - 1814 - 552 pages
...what wilt thou have me to do ?" David wraps himself up in the stillness of patience and submission : " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou " didst it." There stands old Eli ; he has received the most distressing intelligence, and piously exclaims " it... | |
| Hervey Wilbur - 1814 - 184 pages
...for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth : surely every man is vanity. Sclah. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, sit ye here,... | |
| 1842 - 634 pages
...we live, and move, and have our being, we shall meekly say with respect to all his appointments, ' I was dumb ; I opened not my mouth because Thou didst it !' This, -however, I own, is a thought to silence, rather than comfort us. It is not till we can see... | |
| John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pages
...just in all that i« brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Nek. 9. 33- I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by tbe blow of thine hand. P,s. 3P. 9, 10. I will bear... | |
| Flavius Josephus - 1815 - 322 pages
...whensoever he pleases; all wise and good men still saying in such cases with the pious Psalmist, xxxix. 9. / was dumb, I opened not my mouth., because thou didst it ; and with patient Job, i. 21. ii. 40. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall not we receive evil ? The Lord gave, and... | |
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