| Affliction - 1838 - 392 pages
...and asks no one's leave ; nor gives an account to any why it doth so : this stills the soul. — " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it," Psalm xxxix. 9. If thine — who can question it ? Who shall say to the King of kings, " What doest... | |
| John Angell James - 1838 - 374 pages
...which is expressed in such language as this : " it is the Lord, let him do what seemeth good to him." "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." The grounds of submission are clear views and a firm belief of God's power, wisdom, and lover— such... | |
| 1840 - 420 pages
...yourselves to God." " It is the Lord ; let Him do what seemeth Him good." " Aaron held his peace." " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it.'' 3. This occasion should give scope to the exercise of faith — firm, believing, unwavering faith.... | |
| 1910 - 396 pages
...my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions : make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with rebukes dost... | |
| William Chapman - 1910 - 406 pages
...her husband'sdeath reached her. Verily the way of duty hasalso been for her the way of sacrifice. ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because Thou didst it,' said the Psalmist, and similar thoughts arose in my mind when I thought of the translation of our beloved... | |
| Charles Sumner Nutter, Wilbur Fisk Tillett - 1911 - 630 pages
...My hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; Because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blew of thy hand. When thou with rebukes dost... | |
| William Vail Wilson Davis, Raymond Calkins - 1912 - 734 pages
...hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. 10 Eemove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. II When thou with rebukes... | |
| Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1912 - 364 pages
...their son's birth. In hers the record of her husband and son's death, and after the latter added, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou did'st it." Her last words were of her boy. Some three years after her return from Samoa she was seized with pneumonia.... | |
| 1845 - 664 pages
...the bulk of the fragments remaining after the thousands had been fed with the loaves and fishes. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because THOU didst it."* * In answer to the objection, that if the sun had stood still for one single instant, or if the movement... | |
| William George Jordan - 1912 - 164 pages
...have each to face it and find God in it. When it comes upon us suddenly and with great force we cry, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it." 1 When we have looked into the face 1 Ps. xxxix. 9. of some great disappointment that has dislocated... | |
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