 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, "Who shall bring me down to the ground?" Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 581855Full view - About this book
 | William King Tweedie - 1850 - 250 pages
...hide himself from God, as Jonah tried to do ; but it happens according to the words of Obadiah — " Though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord." The grand solution of the world's misery is sin, as the sum and the centre of its blessedness is Christ.... | |
 | George Bush - 1850 - 380 pages
...saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground 1 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.' Had the prophet stood by and witnessed the project in its proud advance and its disastrous termination,... | |
 | James Hollins - 1851 - 94 pages
...rock, " The word of God liveth and abideth for ever !" " Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord," of every tiling devised by the ingenuity of man ; for "heaven and earth shall pass away:" But as His... | |
 | Sophia Louisa Little - 1852 - 202 pages
...contain a striking reference to our new Assyria : — " Though thou exalt thyself as the EAGLE, and set thy nest among the STARS, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord." Here is another passage which shows how the Lord regarded the mingled cruelty and selfish domestic... | |
 | George baron Anson - 1853 - 660 pages
...in his heart, . Who shall bring me down to the ground ! Though thou exalt thyself ae the eagle, anil though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord. Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out... | |
 | 1853 - 148 pages
...thence will I bring thee down saith the Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set tfcy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down saith the Lord. JONAH i. 4. ri But the great sent out a into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 398 pages
...saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground ? Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord." God resisteth the proud, he giveth grace to the humble. We do not need a space of five hundred yards to... | |
 | Susanna Corder - 1854 - 326 pages
...in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground ? u Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord." The good Josiah committed a fatal mistake, and brought himself to an untimely end, by attempting to... | |
 | 1854 - 402 pages
...Concerning the pride and humiliation of Moab, God says : " Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down saith the Lord." Obadiah iii, 4. The eagle has, from very ancient times, been placed upon ensigns in armies. The golden... | |
 | Catharine Irene Finch - 1854 - 494 pages
...air, which recalls forcibly these words of Obadiah : " Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD." TABLE OP THE KINGS OP BABYLON, DURING THE CAPTITITY. Kings of Babylon. (Nebuchodonozor (by the Greeks.)... | |
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