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... planted once more in that holy land , firm even as the Mount Lebanon itself . But not only shall Israel be firm ; but , again , as true cedars , striking their giant and brawny roots below , shall far and wide be seen to flourish , and ...
... planted once more in that holy land , firm even as the Mount Lebanon itself . But not only shall Israel be firm ; but , again , as true cedars , striking their giant and brawny roots below , shall far and wide be seen to flourish , and ...
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... planted with these trees . We find , too , that in after time , when Israel , by God's blessing , and guidance , and strength , and victory , held the land , and had been blessed in it that it was not be- neath even kings to cultivate ...
... planted with these trees . We find , too , that in after time , when Israel , by God's blessing , and guidance , and strength , and victory , held the land , and had been blessed in it that it was not be- neath even kings to cultivate ...
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... planted , and again the Lord was obliged to lop the goodly boughs of this olive tree , for it only brought forth wild olives . It had many an unfruitful bough . Thus , Isaiah xvii . 6 : - " Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it , as ...
... planted , and again the Lord was obliged to lop the goodly boughs of this olive tree , for it only brought forth wild olives . It had many an unfruitful bough . Thus , Isaiah xvii . 6 : - " Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it , as ...
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... planted by the waters , and that spreadeth out her roots by the river , and shall not see when heat cometh , but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought , neither shall cease from yielding fruit . " The ...
... planted by the waters , and that spreadeth out her roots by the river , and shall not see when heat cometh , but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought , neither shall cease from yielding fruit . " The ...
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... planted by the waters , and that spreadeth out her roots by the rivers , and ( that ) shall not see when heat cometh , but her leaf shall be green . " One might almost imagine the prophet , on a journey from the desert , the " parched ...
... planted by the waters , and that spreadeth out her roots by the rivers , and ( that ) shall not see when heat cometh , but her leaf shall be green . " One might almost imagine the prophet , on a journey from the desert , the " parched ...
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Page 42 - The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek. He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord...
Page 45 - Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord...
Page 71 - Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 40 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 20 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 60 - And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones ; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 88 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 58 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 18 - shall have the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession ; " when " the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Page 97 - For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground...