 | 1611 - 360 pages
...him in the path of judgment, And taught him knowledge, And shewed to him the way of understanding ? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And...sufficient to burn, Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. All nations before him are as nothing; And they are counted to him less than nothing,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 pages
...nations are as a drop of a bucket, and arc counted as the small dust of the balance. Behold, he takcth up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is...the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. JII nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him 1 liken God? or what likeness will... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...the hills in a " balance. Behold the nations," proceeds the sublime Isaiah, " are as a drop of the " bucket, and are counted as the small dust " of the...behold he taketh up the " isles as a very little thing. All nations " before him are as nothing, and they are " counted to him as less than nothing, and "... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...of this JEHOJJ^IH of the illiterate Jews! before whom, to use this poet's own words, all other gods are ' as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.' Had I been acquainted with this wonderful volume, while I was writing my treatise on the Pathetic,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1803 - 422 pages
...him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding ? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and -vanity. To whom then will ye liken God ? or what likeness will ye compare unto... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 488 pages
...proper sense and proper apprehensions of Jehovah ? He is nothing, and less than nothing and vanity. " Behold the nations are as a drop of' " a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the ballance ; " behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Le" ban. *n is not sufficient... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 240 pages
...of this Jehovah of the illiterate Jews ! before whom, to use this poet's own words, all other gods are " as a drop of a bucket," and are counted " as the small dust of the balance." Had I been acquainted with this wonderful volume, while I was writing my treatise on the Pathetic,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...'him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and...behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To... | |
 | John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and counted as the small dust of the balance ; behold he taketh up the isles as a very little tiling. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1806 - 406 pages
...He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Behold all nations, are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance. All before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. He bringeth... | |
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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 
