 | Hervey Wilbur - Bible - 1823 - 146 pages
...standing? 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....earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : That... | |
 | 1823 - 406 pages
...it not been told you from the beginning ? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in." " He... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - Church history - 1823 - 524 pages
...arc to understand, that HE whom " the heaven of heavens cannot contain," 1 Kings viii. 27, — HE who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers," Isa. xl. 22, — He, before whom all nations are as nothing, and counted to HIM less than nothing and... | |
 | 1823 - 430 pages
...reptile ! that, like an insect in the ground, would seek to magnify the greatness of that being who " sitteth upon the circle of the "earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers."* In connexion with the error which we have been noticing there exists another, equally common, and,... | |
 | Sarah Brealey - Jews - 1823 - 408 pages
...as \ve ought in the strait path through evil and good report, forgetting too often, " It is he who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Methodist Church - 1824 - 216 pages
...measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance." (Isaiah xl. 12 — 15.) " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtaiu, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwdM 196 THE WHOLE... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 570 pages
...nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. — He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; he stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in; he bringeth... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...the heavens like a veil or curtain/ We have the same allusion in the sublime strains of Isaiah : " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.g " The... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...not been told you from the beginning ? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? 22 the sword, and have taken ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : 23 That... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 542 pages
...worship ! " the heaven of heavens cannot contain him," he is the King of kings and Lord of lords ; he sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; he is clothed with honour and majesty, thousand thousands minister unto him, ten thousand times ten... | |
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges... 
