 | Prayer books - 1917 - 192 pages
...nor rewarded us according to our wickednesses. 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth: so great is his mercy also toward them...the LORD merciful unto them that fear him. 14 For he knowcth whereof we are made: he remembereth that we are but dust. 15 The days of man are but as grass:... | |
 | Girls' friendly society - 1880
...things to cheer me. It was like the verse which we sang the last Sunday morning I had been at church, 'Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even...so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him.' All these thoughts comforted me that Sunday evening, as I sat, with Bertie on my lap, and Willy leaning... | |
 | Prayers - 1917 - 299 pages
...the heaven is in comparison of the earth : so great is His mercy also toward them that fear Him. 11 Look how wide also the east is from the west : so far hath He set our sins from us. 12 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children : even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear... | |
 | Bp. William David Walker - 1918 - 188 pages
...sheep. It tells us "the Lord is full of compassion, and mercy, long-suffering and of great goodness. Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. He knoweth our frame." The chapter sparkles with proclamations of the divine pity. How touchingly is... | |
 | John Rougier Cohu - Bible - 1920 - 341 pages
...near and gracious, full of mercy and lovingkindness, a God who will by no means spare the guilty, yet "like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him, for He knoweth whereof we are made." Sufferings of the Godly. — This problem is often faced in the... | |
 | Devotional exercises - 1921 - 206 pages
...: and yet didst thou turn and refresh me : yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again. Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children : even, so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. 1 will remember the works of the Lord : and call to mind thy wonders of old time. If the Lord had not... | |
 | Bible - 1905
...we may call the still small voice — the voice which speaks of God's goodness and of His love : " Like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him. For He knoweth whereof we are made ; He remembereth that we are but dust" (Ps. ciii. 13, 14); "Come... | |
 | John A. T. Robinson - Religion - 1967 - 168 pages
...unfeeling. It could not serve the Psalmist who wanted to T Psalm 18.2. 8 Deuteronomy 33.27. affirm that "like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him.'" Yet the metaphor of "father" by very reason of its greater adequacy contains the greater danger that... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - Huguenots - 1894
...the heaven is in comparison of the earth : so great is his mercy also toward them that fear him. 1 2 Look how wide also the east is from the west : so...his own children : even so is the Lord merciful unto thorn that fear him. 14 For he knoweth whereof we are made: He rememberoth that we are but dust. 15... | |
 | Oxford University Press, TME. - Reference - 1999 - 1136 pages
...them that fear him. Look how wide also the east is from the west: so far hath he set our sins from us. Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children: even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. For he knoweth whereof we are made: he remembereth that we are but dust. Psalm 103, v. n 20 The days... | |
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For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth : so great is his mercy also toward them that fear him. 
