The Suffering of the Best, Or, Service and Sacrifice |
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age-long anointed Antitype Babylonian Exile beauty Behold binary star Book of Job bruised Chaldean character Christian comfort confess conqueror covenant love Cyrus Cyrus the Persian dark day of vengeance death deportation desert Deutero-Isaiah discipline divine earth endured eternal eyes faithful remnant fulness future Gentiles George Eliot glorified glory God's guilt-offering hand healing heart hearths and sanctuary heathen heathen nations Hebrew captives hills Holy honour human ideal Servant individual inspire Jewish land listen Lord hath Lord's marred meaning ministry modern moral ness never Old Testament outer framework pain Persian picture pious in Israel pleasure preacher present promise prophet purified purposes of Jehovah redemption religion righteousness rivers of Babylon sacrifice silent in suffering sorrow soul spiritual kernel startled stooped to conquer strophe suffering Servant supreme sword taught teaching Testament thee thou to-day true truth unbelief unto valley verses vicarious vindicated vision words Zerubbabel Zion
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Page 33 - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
Page 83 - And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain.
Page 28 - Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat — one Who can rule and dare not lie.
Page 67 - It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, That thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Page 56 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, And will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, And give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles ; To open the blind eyes, To bring out the prisoners from the prison, And them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
Page 31 - Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Page 81 - In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.
Page 76 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Page 64 - I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain :" yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
Page 147 - Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong ; because he hath poured out his soul unto death : and he was numbered with the transgressors ; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.