 | Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union - 1822 - 156 pages
...AH nations before him are as nothing ; and .they are counted to him less than nothing. and vanity. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. '.. Q. 8. What saith the prophet Jeremiah concerning the true and living God ? Jeremiah, x. 10, 12,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1822 - 398 pages
...earth in a- measure, and weighed the mountains in a scale, and the hills in a balance. Isa. xl. 12. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heaven as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Isa. xl. 22. Thus saith God the... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 pages
...captive of the mighty rlmll be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered." Yea, " He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that strctcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in," He hath said,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...becomes foolish.' His transcendent eminence above all things is most nobly represented, when he ' sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers : all nations before him are as the drop of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance: he takes... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1823 - 144 pages
...are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. Yea, they shall... | |
 | 1823 - 406 pages
...it not been told you from the beginning ? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in." " He stood and measured the earth; he beheld, and drove asunder the nations." " None can stay his hand,... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pages
...arc to understand, that HE whom " the heaven of heavens cannot contain," 1 Kings viii. 27, — HE who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers," Isa. xl. 22, — He, before whom all nations are as nothing, and counted to HIM less than nothing and... | |
 | 1823 - 430 pages
...reptile ! that, like an insect in the ground, would seek to magnify the greatness of that being who " sitteth upon the circle of the "earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers."* In connexion with the error which we have been noticing there exists another, equally common, and,... | |
 | Sarah Brealey - 1823 - 408 pages
...as \ve ought in the strait path through evil and good report, forgetting too often, " It is he who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1824 - 216 pages
...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance." (Isaiah xl. 12 — 15.) " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtaiu, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwdM 196 THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. iii ." (Is. xl. 22.) This... | |
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges... 
