 | Henry Melvill - 1846 - 394 pages
...class of persons with whom we might expect to find more of piety than with mariners, those who " go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters." Well might the Psalmist say, and the hearts of many in this assembly can respond to the words, " These... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1846 - 442 pages
...judgments, but from which we must as Christians profit, though we are not ourselves of those " who go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters, who see the works of the LORD and His wonders in the deep : for at His word the stormy wind ariseth... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1921 - 608 pages
...had finished its practice of Attwood's glorious anthem for that evening's service — ' They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters ' ; how far removed from that quiet Midland city seemed the sound of the waves ! The chapel door opened,... | |
 | Church of England. Church Pastoral Aid Society - 1858 - 490 pages
...body of our countrymen — Sailors. It is impossible to contemplate the condition of those " that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters," without feeling that though " llicso men see the wonders of the Lord/' yet, as a class, they arc sadly... | |
 | Virginia DeJohn Anderson - History - 1991 - 248 pages
...discovery. For the verses do indeed sum up the ordeal and sublimity of passing beyond the seas. They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For at his word the stormy wind ariseth,... | |
 | Mark L. Thompson - Business & Economics - 1991 - 244 pages
...King David in the familiar words of Psalm 107, written almost three thousand years ago: They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.8 The remaining verses of the Psalm... | |
 | Z. R. W. M. von Martels - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 280 pages
...of our great Creator. And certainly the Royal Psalmist spoke great truth when he said: Those that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters, they behold the wonderful works of God, etc.' To whose good pleasure and disposal I had cheerfully... | |
 | Family & Relationships - 1994 - 278 pages
...sea Almighty and eternal God, whose way is on the deep. We commend to thy fatherly care all that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters. Help them in whatever lies before them, to acquit themselves like men. If there be any duty, may they... | |
 | Tim Clayton, Philip R. Craig - History - 2002 - 356 pages
...rulest the raging of the sea: Be pleased to receive into Thy protection those who in this time of war go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters." Iain Nethercott's family prayed for him in Ilford. "O Lord, let Thy mercy be shewed upon us; As we... | |
 | Richard Woodman - Fiction - 2000 - 340 pages
...would normally have ripped the bottom out of her. He thought of the words of the psalmist: They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters; these men shall see the works of the Lord . . . Mackinnon watched the foremast whip back and forth... | |
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They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep. 
