 | English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...extends to the meanest rank of his creatures, is expressed with wonderful tenderness : " Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons... .and also much cattle!" And we have in Deuteronomy a precept of great goodnature of this sort, with... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither nradest it grow ; •which came up in a night, and perished in a night : thou thinkett it a pity that so beautiful and comfortable a plant should 11 he so soon destroyed,... | |
 | Laurence Howel - Bible - 1807 - 588 pages
...compassion on the gourd, for " which thou hast not laboured, neither didst thou make " it grow, and which came up in a night, and perished in " a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great ci" ty, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons " that cannot discern between their right hand... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...upon tiicc from the womb, thou art my God from my mother's belly. Ps. Ixxi. 6. Jonah iv. 11. God said should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern them between their right hand and their left ? Mark... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...thi<, which thou hast done, as to wish, in the bitterness of my soul, to be rid of my life. IV. 10, 1 1 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd,...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? Then said the Lord, I have done this purposely to shew thee thine own error and weakness : thou hadst... | |
 | William Newcome - Bible - 1809 - 424 pages
...as well as for the loss of its shelter. — in- a night] Some MSS. and editions read joU? and tOi. cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? at a fifth part, the city contained six hundred thousand inhabitants. See Boch. Geogr. 252, 3. —... | |
 | Ezekiel Blomfield - Bible - 1809 - 690 pages
...where God makes his compassion to brute beasts one of the reasons why he would not destroy Nineveh : " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six icore thousand persons,' that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also... | |
 | James Macknight - 1809 - 644 pages
...where God makes hii compassion to brute beasts, one of the reasons why he would cot destroy Nineveh. " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...said the Lo RD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, 'lor'the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow : which came up in a night, and perished in...spare "Nineveh that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also... | |
 | Missions - 1821 - 632 pages
...had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast Hot laboured, neither made it grow : And should not 1 spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle. — Jonah iv. 9 — 11. VI. " He that is soon angry with another, has just reason to be angry with... | |
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Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot... 
