They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Littell's Living Age - Page 3231880Full view - About this book
| John Philips - Cider - 1791 - 214 pages
...up to the heavens and down again to the deep : their " foul melteth away becaufe of the trouble. " THEY REEL TO AND FRO, AND STAGGER LIKE A DRUNKEN " MAN: and are at their wits end." 231. ————— Meanwhile the loofen'd 'winds, Infuriate, molten rocks and flaming globes Hurl'd... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...carried up to the heaven, and down again to the deep : Their soul melteth away because of their trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, And arc at their wit's end. So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, He delivered! them out of... | |
| Thomas Case - 1802 - 184 pages
...They mount up to heaven, they go down again to the depth ; their soul is melted because of trouble : they reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. And 'partly, God teacheth the necessity of a life of faith by the disappointment of the creature :... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 408 pages
...mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted because oi' trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...mount up to the heaven, they go down again to 27 the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their 28 wit's end. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and 29 he bringeth them out of their distresses.... | |
| Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 430 pages
...a passage in the Psalms, from whence one must be almost certain he must .have borrowed this image " They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end." Psalm 107; verse 27. Here, not only the simile is the same, and the expression almost so... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...up tc the heaven, and down again to the deep ; their soul melteth «way because of the trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end. 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress.... | |
| 1808 - 306 pages
...mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted hecanse of trouhle. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at Iheir wit's end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouhle, and he hringeih them out of their distresses.... | |
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