 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...son' (Gen. xxii. 12). 'Neither be ye sorry, for the joy of the Lord is your strength' (Neh. viii. 10). 'There the wicked cease from troubling ; and there...together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor' (Job. iii. 17, 18). ' But He knoweth the way that I take : when He hath tried me, I shall come forth... | |
 | Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...accurfed day i Yet let the facrifice at leaft be paid, An honour to the living, not the dead ! VERSE XVIU. THERE THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER, THEY HEAR NOT THE VOICE OF THE OPPRESSOR. " THE account given us of the treatment of the chriftian fljves in Mequinez, is a *' lively comment... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the...together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there ; and the servant is free from his master. They shall lie down alike... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Sermons - 1804 - 372 pages
...racking of pain^ the malice, contempt, and ill-will of the world can pursue us no farther than the grave; there (< the wicked cease from troubling, and there...the " weary be at rest ; there the prisoners rest toge" ther, they hear not the voice of the oppressor." In the Third place, death is the commencement... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 504 pages
...had not been ; as infants [which] never saw light ; as a stit!17 barn child, not numbered among men. There the wicked cease [from] troubling ; and there the weary be at rest : in the grave cruel ofi/ircêsor* cannot trouble, nor the ofijircsaed be troubled. 18 [There] the... | |
 | Edward Barry - Conduct of life - 1806 - 244 pages
...mansions of peace, where in the comfortable language of him, who once so ardently prayed a change, " The wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest" It was the opinion of an ancient writer, " that the God's concealed from men the happiness of death.... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1807 - 424 pages
...inquietudes of life, and sets before us the image of eternal rest. There, in the elegant expressions of Job, the wicked cease from troubling ; and there the 'weary...at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they bear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great are there ; and the servant is free from... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...taken away from the evil to come. Ver. 2. He shall enter into peace. 2 Kings xxii. 19, 20. Job iii. 17. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. ' Ver. 18. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 'Ps. Ixxiii.... | |
 | Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 388 pages
...sleeps until the resurrection. Of this, Job in his affliction had a pleasing view, when he said, " there the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest." The children of God, also, at death rest from crosses and afflictions. Man that is born of a woman... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...which never saw light. 1 7 There the wjcknd cease from troubling ; and there the weary be at rest. . 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 1§ The small and great are there ; and the servant e's free from his master. . 20 Wherefore is light... | |
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There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; They hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; And the servant is free from his master. 
