| Emanuel Swedenborg - 1750 - 88 pages
...Truths, is called a Pit or a Well in which there is no Water ; as in Jeremiah, " Their Nobles have " fent their little ones to the Waters, they came to the...Pits, and found no " Water, they returned with their Veflels empty," xiv. 3. where Waters are put for Truths, Pits where they found no Water, for Doctrine,... | |
| John Flavel - 1770 - 488 pages
...returned with their veffels " empty ; they were aihamed and confounded, and covered " their heads, becauie the ground is chapt ; for there was no " rain in the earth ; the plowmen were a(hamed, they covered " their heads ; yea, the hind alfo calved in the field, and for"... | |
| Thomas Harmer - 1776 - 574 pages
...cracking of the earth, before the autumnal rains fall, is fo lively a comment on Jer. xiv. 4, " becaufe " the ground is chapt, for there was no rain " in the earth, the plough-men were a" {named, " that I beg leave to introduce it here as a diftin£l Obfervation. The lands of the Eaft,... | |
| Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...Jeremiah has a pafTage that bears a very near affinity to this. " Their nobles, fays he, have fent their little ones to the " waters; they came to the...pits, and found no water; they returned with their vef" fels empty." And what was the confequence of this their difappointment ? " Why " they were afhamed... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 684 pages
...thirir. Such a fad ftate the prophet rhetorically defcribes, Jer. xiv. 3, 4, 5, 6. " The nobles have fent their little ones ** to the waters; they came to the...pits and found no water; they " returned with their vefTcls empty ; they were afhamed and con" founded, and covered their heads, becaufe the ground is... | |
| Robert MacCulloch - 1800 - 688 pages
...occalions, may be vifited with drought, and their iituation be like that of the nobles of Judah, who lent their little ones to the waters ; they came to the...pits, and found no water ; they returned with their veflels empty *. This painful calamity, exhibits an aftecting repreientation of a more dreadful judgment... | |
| 1845 - 786 pages
...felicior) — with the description given by Jeremiah (xiv. 3.) of the effects of famine, — ' And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters ;...were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads ;' — will enable us at once to feel, which wrote what he had only read of, and which what he had... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...ones to the waters, being forced to part iviih their serranrs, i/iru send their children for mater : they came to the pits, [and] found no water ; they returned with their vessels empty ; they were 4 ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain... | |
| Samuel Burder - Bible - 1807 - 438 pages
...waved to us with-his hand to keep at a distance." (Travels in Africa, p. 99.)' No. 280. — xiv. 4. Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth.] Chardin says, " the lands of the East, which the great dryness there causes to crack, are the ground... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...waved to us with his hand to keep at a distance." (Travels in Africa, p. 99.) No. 280. — xiv. 4. Because the ground is chapt, for there -was no rain in the earth.] Chardin lays, " the lands of the East, which the great dryness there causes to crack, are the ground... | |
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