| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1806 - 416 pages
...is throian into the *eat and swallowed \ "^TOW the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of 2 JLN Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,* and cry against it, foretell the judgments coming upon it ; for 3 their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...; and God shall challenge to himself the right and protection of his kingdom of Israel. JONAH. I. 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it ; for their wickedness is come up before me. Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city of the Assyrians, and denounce my judgments against it; for their... | |
| William Newcome - Bible - 1809 - 426 pages
...518 About 436. . , THE BOOK OF JONAH. CHAPTER I. 1 i\ ow the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the 2 son of Amittai, saying; Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against her : for their wickedness is come up before me. S But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the... | |
| Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...as the address itself is striking. The word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, say ing, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against...for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah obeyed not the command. Alarmed at the difficulties of the office imposed on him, he refused to execute... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...LXXXV. TWE HISTORY OF THE PROPHET JONAH. From Chap, i, &c. ., •, ' ^ow the word of the LORD came -unto Jonah the son >of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh,...that great city, •and cry against it>; for their wi(!kedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee Onto Tarshish from the presence of the... | |
| Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 682 pages
...of Jonah, chapter i. verses 1, 2, 3. " Now the Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amiltai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh that great city and cry against it But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and he found a ship and went... | |
| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 586 pages
...the LORD'S. JONA H. CHAP. I. JN OW the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying* 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and... | |
| Asia - 1819 - 652 pages
...ways of evil and violence, and to denounce the overthrow of the empire, if they failed to repent. " Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it: for their wickedness is come up before me." Jon. i. 2 — We are instructed by Christ himself to contemplate the Almighty as a mornl governor,... | |
| Hugh McNeile - Sermons, English - 1825 - 472 pages
...feature in the character of our God. * Amos ii. 13. The wickedness of the Ninevites was great, and " the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai,...against it ; for their wickedness is come up before me." Jonah was unwilling to go on this high errand, and his conduct on the occasion led to a remarkable... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - 426 pages
...said that God " repented of the evil." That evil was the destruction of Nineveh for its wickedness. " Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me." When this terrible sentence was denounced by the prophet Jonah, the effect which it appears to have... | |
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