 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?  Applied Philosophy - Page 142by Climenson Yelverton Charles Dawbarn - 1923 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Wesley - 1825 - 742 pages
...outward act will receive any blessing from God. " Is it such a fast that I have chosen, saith the Lord; a day for a man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow...bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? " Arc these outward acts, however strictly performed, all that is meant by a man's "afflicting his... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...the field, xvi. !> j. Is it such a fast that 1 have chosen 1 a day for a man to afflict his soul 1 is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt tliou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD 1 Isa. Iviii. 5. Speak unto all the people... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...-ля ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ia day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down hie head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes u »der him I wilt thou call this a fast,... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...this day, mot ai Mi day. .. . . " < . . . , JJ ' to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it u such a fast that I have chosen ? * * a day for a man to afflict his soul 1 is it to bow down his head as a bul" *»• rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly. ISA. Iviii. 5 : Is it such a fast that 1 have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD ? JOEL, ii. 12, 13 : Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...wickedness ; ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a last that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his...it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackeloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fest, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? Numb.... | |
 | 1840 - 370 pages
...justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." " Is it such a fast as I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? Is not this the fast which I have chosen,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1827 - 522 pages
...should afflict bii soul foi a day ? Is it to bow down the bead as a bulrush, and to spread sarkcloth and ashes under him ? Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Isa. Kin. " And what says God of exterior devotions in general ? ' To what purpose is the multitude... | |
 | William Newnham - 1827 - 702 pages
...with a sacrifice of solid pleasure; not that we would make it " a day for a man to afflict his soul, to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him, and call this an acceptable day to the Lord;" but on the contrary, one on which, in imitation of our... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - 1828 - 464 pages
...directions both of Prophets and of Evangelists. For thus speaketh God by the voice of the Prophet : — " Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens,... | |
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