 | James Hervey - 1825 - 424 pages
...and solemn dulness, in order to maintain a more uninterrupted communion with that mighty Being who ' sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers before him.'f Welcome toTheron was the shady bower; welcome the * It is thought by some eminent critics,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1826 - 414 pages
...hand ; he meteth out heaven with a span, and comprehendeth the dust of the earth in a measure. — He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. — I have made the earth, and created man upon it ; I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens,... | |
 | Charles Wellbeloved - 1826 - 278 pages
...of the earth in a " measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, "and the hills in a balance! who sitteth upon "the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants " thereof are as grasshoppers ; who stretcheth " out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth " them out as a tent to dwell in !"... | |
 | John Pridham - 1826 - 376 pages
...God ; which instructs us to entertain a proper sense of our wickedness, corruption, and weakness. "He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Behold! the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold!... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 584 pages
...lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy;' Isa. Ivii. 15. with whom we have now to do : ' He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers before him; yea, the nations are as the drop of the bucket, and are counted... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...rot ; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. 22 * It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and ie no the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that d stretch- toG'Ji)eth out the heavens as a... | |
 | William Wake - 1827 - 454 pages
...knowest; for thou, even thou, only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men. Isaiah, xl. 22. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Psalm cxxxix. 7. Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? or whither shall Iflee from thy presence ? "... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pages
...All 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,...the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers : that stretchetl] out the heaven as a curtain ; and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in." " Hast thou... | |
 | Hasan S. Padamsee - 2002 - 708 pages
...heavens could not be spherical because, in Isaiah, the scriptures say that God [3] '. . . stretcheth the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in'. Priests fought against assigning astronomical events any religious significance. They ignored the necessity... | |
 | Mia Carter, Barbara Harlow - 2003 - 836 pages
...bringing honor and glory to the Great and Gracious Ruler of the Universe, whose are all things, "who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; who bringeth the princes to nothing, and maketh the judges of the earth as vanity."— Isaiah xl. 22,... | |
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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... 
