 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto...  The Christian Observer - Page 3001832Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Gibbons - English language - 1767 - 540 pages
...her branches unto the river. Why " haft thou broken down her hedges, fo that all -*' they which pafs by the way do pluck her ? ** The boar out of the wood doth wafte it, and " the wild beaft of the field doth devour it. Re" turn, we befeech thee, O Gop of hofts... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...her branches into -the river. Why haft thou cc broken down her hedges, fo that all they " which pafs by the way do pluck her ? The " boar out of the wood doth watte it ; and the " wild beaft of the field doth devour it. Re" turn, we befeech thee, O God of Hofts,... | |
 | Robert Macculloch - Bible - 1791 - 750 pages
...accomplifhment, thus complains: ' Why haft thou broken down her ' hedges, fo that; all they which pafs by the way do •* pluck her. The boar out of the wood doth wafte *''ifi;-ajid thre'wild beaft of the field doth devour h 'jfhall be eaten up—-and it Jhall be... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 506 pages
...Vineyard of the Lord — is the Houfe of Ifrael." Exod. xv. 17. Jer. ii. 21. Pial. Ixxx. n, "She fent out her Boughs unto the Sea, and her Branches unto the River." Ifai. xxvii. 9, то, n, "By this fhall the Iniquity of Jacob be purged ; — j»_t the defenced City... | |
 | Missions - 1802 - 596 pages
...to-morrow comes. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof." Satan may he permitted to prevail. " The wild boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it >§." If the Devil is permitted to succeed, he makes the bough very bare. In reality, as in David's... | |
 | Augustus Toplady - Theology - 1794 - 526 pages
...her branches unto the river. Why haft thou then broken down her hedges, fo that all they, who pafs by the way, do pluck her? The boar, out of the wood, doth wafte it ; and the wild beaft of the field doth devour it. Return, we befeech thee, O God of hofts... | |
 | William Jones - Sermons, English - 1801 - 506 pages
...be told, that when the fence of a vineyard is taken away, all they that go by pluck off the grapes ; the boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beasts of the field devour it. And as to the abolition of tithes, another part of the meditated plan,... | |
 | 1842
...regions appeared like a fruitful vine, which had taken deep root, and which filled the land. " But now the boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." (Psalm Ixxx. 9 — 13.) Still, the Spirit of God hath never wholly departed from the earth. While some... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1804 - 608 pages
...desolate places of our Lord's vineyard. The words of the Psalmist were then literally fulfilled : " The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it." Virginia had been longer settled, but the planters had little or no religion. They cared for none of... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...that all 'they which pass by the way do pluck her ? 13 we are become a prey to all our neighbours. The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field, ßerce and 14 furious enemies, doth devour it. Return, we beseech thee, О God of hosts ; look down... | |
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