 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...  The Christian Observer - Page 1481815Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...amidst the immensity of his works. In the boundless subject the soul is lost. It is he who sitteth on the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. He weigheth the mountains in scales. He taketh up the isles as a very little thing. Lord, what is man... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 398 pages
...and weighed the mountains in a scale, and the hills in a balance. Isa. xl. 12. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heaven as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Isa. xl.... | |
 | Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union - 1822 - 156 pages
...are as nothing ; and .they are counted to him less than nothing. and vanity. 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. '.. Q.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...becomes foolish.' His transcendent eminence above all things is most nobly represented, when he ' sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers : all nations before him are as the drop of a bucket, and as the small dust of the balance: he takes... | |
 | 1823 - 430 pages
...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,... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - Church history - 1823 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - Catechisms, English - 1823 - 144 pages
...small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 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... | |
 | 1823 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | Sarah Brealey - Jews - 1823 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 570 pages
...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... | |
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