 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 536 pages
...say of our Creator with Moses, as an eagle stirreth up her nest,flntte]eth (>ver herymmg, spreadetli abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her -wings, so the Lord hath condescended to take care of his creature man. Yet Mr. Hume, writhing beneath the tortures of... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 576 pages
...you to myself." (Exod. xix. 4.) And Mosea, in his eloquent song, declares: " He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness. He led...fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, takcth them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led...wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Cord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. He made him ride on the high places... | |
 | John Hawkesworth - English essays - 1823 - 302 pages
...torches. How amiably is the tenderness and solicitude of God for his favourites expressed! 'As the eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,....beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead them!' On the other hand, how dreadfully is his indignation described : ' I will be unto them as a... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 650 pages
...and solicitude of God for his favourites expressed ! ' As the eagle stirreth up her nest, flutlereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh...beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead them '.' On the other hand, how dreadfully is his indignation described : ' I will be unto them as... | |
 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1864 - 686 pages
...victory over them all, through the blood of the Lamb. To you I may apply those sublime words of Moses, " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over...them, beareth them on her wings;" so the Lord alone does and will lead you, Deut. xxxii. 11, 12; defend you, cherish you, and bear you along to your eternal... | |
 | Gerhard Friedrich A. Strauss - 1824 - 408 pages
...the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob is the extent of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness. He led...him, He kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle covers her nest around, And hovers over her young, Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them up, And... | |
 | James Ellice - 1824 - 92 pages
...breathes also the same parental tenderness, He, the Lord, found Jacob his people in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He led him about,...instructed him, He kept him as the apple of his eye. As the eagle stirreth up her nest, Jiuttereth over her YOUNG, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...1,2. xxvi. 17— 19. For the Lord's portion is his people : Jacob is the lot of his inheritance, &c. He led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. — Deut. xxxii. 9, 10. 1 Pet. v. 3. Jer. xii. 7—10. The eternal God is thy refuge ; and underneath... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 548 pages
...his eye ; though, as an eagle stirreth upon her nest, fluttereth over her young ones, spreadeth out her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead it ; though it hath been as the -signet on his right-hand,' yet, if it continues thus to treat Him,... | |
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He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. 
