 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1848 - 700 pages
...Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I fled ; for I knew Thou wert a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil<i." He told beforehand what the event would be, and he had reason to know it; God proclaimed it... | |
 | Catharine Irene Finch - 1854 - 494 pages
...Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry, and he prayed unto the LORD and said : I pray thee, 0 LORD, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I fled unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, and slow to anger, and of great... | |
 | 1855 - 614 pages
...Jonah exceedingly, and He was very angry. And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, Î Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country...Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish : for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee... | |
 | Robert Ferguson - 1855 - 120 pages
...character. Hear how unguardedly he speaks — " therefore I fled before unto Tarshish ; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil ! " How does he glorify that very mercy which he means to blame ! What a lovely picture does he give... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1855 - 676 pages
...guilty : and pleaded his anticipation of this very event, as a justification of it: "I pray thee, Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish." He even went further, and "prayed to God to take away his life ;" for that, since he must appear to... | |
 | Daniel Dana Buck - 1856 - 328 pages
...a false prophet, he was exceedingly grieved, and thus made his complaint to the Lord : * " 0 Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country...Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish ; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1856 - 790 pages
...lay in the heart of Jonah ; for he said to God, when God had spared the city, " I pray thee, 0 Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country...Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish : for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee... | |
 | Thomas Cobbet - 1856 - 446 pages
...merciful is God, and thence is put upon it to turn aside from his calling to pray at Nineveh : " O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country...therefore I fled before unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee... | |
 | William Taylor - 1856 - 414 pages
...successfully, and ihe people should repent, thou wilt not bring upon them the judgments of thy word. "For thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger,...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." So the people will call me a lying impostor, and perhaps take away my life ; and then relapse into... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1856 - 394 pages
...Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish : for 1 knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, &c. — Jonah iv. 1 — 3. " YE know not what manner... | |
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Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 
