A commentary on the Book of psalms. ed. by C. Bradley, Volume 2Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1848 - Bible |
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Page 11
... keep all the watches of the night , and wait in vain for sleep to relieve them from duty , until the dawning of the morning . To a night so spent , may a season of captivity or per- secution be compared . Thus the ancient Church looked ...
... keep all the watches of the night , and wait in vain for sleep to relieve them from duty , until the dawning of the morning . To a night so spent , may a season of captivity or per- secution be compared . Thus the ancient Church looked ...
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... keep his command- ments : 8. And might not be as their fathers , a stubborn and rebellious generation ; a generation that set not their heart aright , and whose spirit was not stedfast with God . The reason is here assigned , why God ...
... keep his command- ments : 8. And might not be as their fathers , a stubborn and rebellious generation ; a generation that set not their heart aright , and whose spirit was not stedfast with God . The reason is here assigned , why God ...
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... keep his commandments ; " not following the examples of the fathers of Israel , who proved " faithless , " and " rebellious " in the wilderness , when God had brought them out of Egypt . This is the very use St. Paul makes of those ...
... keep his commandments ; " not following the examples of the fathers of Israel , who proved " faithless , " and " rebellious " in the wilderness , when God had brought them out of Egypt . This is the very use St. Paul makes of those ...
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... keep their feast days with joy and gladness of heart ; to exalt their voices , and join together all their sweetest instruments of music , in honour of Him who had rescued them from the Egyptian bondage , and given them a law from Sinai ...
... keep their feast days with joy and gladness of heart ; to exalt their voices , and join together all their sweetest instruments of music , in honour of Him who had rescued them from the Egyptian bondage , and given them a law from Sinai ...
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... Keep not thou silence , O God ; hold not thy peace , and be not still , O God . 2. For , lo , thine enemies make a tumult : and they that hate thee have lifted up their head . The Church entreateth God again and again to hear and help ...
... Keep not thou silence , O God ; hold not thy peace , and be not still , O God . 2. For , lo , thine enemies make a tumult : and they that hate thee have lifted up their head . The Church entreateth God again and again to hear and help ...
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Page 191 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 131 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Page 121 - Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Page 47 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. 11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Page 363 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 129 - The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice ; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Page 259 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven...
Page 448 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 199 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Page 131 - And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.