 | Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...the instructed man. " Yea," says the prophet, " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming ; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that... | |
 | 1806 - 504 pages
...wickedness, saying, •what have I done ? Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." " When the judgments of the Lord are in the earth,... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1803 - 420 pages
...powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming*." AB the migration of birds constitutes a very curious article of natural history, our readers probably... | |
 | William Smith - 1803 - 584 pages
...even more stupid than the brute creation " For ihe stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgments of the Lord," nor regard the merciful visitations of my power!... | |
 | Alexander Hunter - Agriculture - 1803 - 590 pages
...rational. In the sacred history we are told, that the Slork in the heavens knmceth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their comings and we are reminded that the leafing of the fig-tree usually determines the approach of summer.... | |
 | 1810 - 544 pages
...(ht/Oreator and the littleness of man. Yea, the stork iu the Heavens knoweih her appointed times>; and (he turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Tell me, ye sages,, who pretend to penetrate mto the... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...without considering or fearing his danger. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming ; they return in the summer to their former abodes ; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - Devotional literature, German - 1806 - 342 pages
...ought to return. "The stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed time; and the turtle, and the cranr, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming."...and the natural inclination of those creatures to bring up their young, are their greatest motives for changing their place; but it is, in other respects,... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - Calendars - 1808 - 300 pages
...they know the exact period when they are to remove. " The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed time ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming." (Jer. viii. 7.) No doubt, some variation in the temperature of the air, and their natural instinct... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 562 pages
...actions and their use ! The stork in the heaven, saith thy prophet Jeremy, knmceth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming ; Jer. viii. 1. Who have seen the stork *, before the calends of August; or a swallow, in the winter?... | |
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Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. 
