 | John Owen - Bibliography - 1827 - 404 pages
...represents the gradual improvement of grace and holiness ; and this is the growth of trees and plants. " I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon : his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree,... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - Sermons, American - 1828 - 424 pages
...return? "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely : for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive... | |
 | Isabella Marshall Graham - 1828 - 316 pages
...' I will heal their backsliding ; I will love them freely, for mine anger is turned away from him. I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. Ephraim shall say, what have I to do any more with idols ? I have... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...spake with us, even the Lord God of Hosts. — Hosea xii. 2 — 5. Gen. xxxii. 24, 25. Hosea xi. 12. I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, &c. — Hosea ziv. 5, 6. And my people shall never be ashamed. — Joel ii. 26, 27. For he that toucheth... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...mentioned. The growth of the lily is made an emblem of the restoration promised to the people of God : " I will be as the dew unto Israel, he shall grow as the Kly" Hos. xiv. 5. The lily, like' most other bulbous roots, dies off at the approach of winter, and... | |
 | John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing."* "I will • I'ialm xcii. 12—14. be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon."* To the genial influences of heaven — the cheering smile of... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...even so to them 57 SERMON VI. REV. JOHN HUNT. — (On Divine Influence.) P1UB HOSF.A xvi. S — 7. — I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree,... | |
 | Selina Martin - Children - 1832 - 242 pages
...heaven must nourish its growth, when it " strikes root downward, before it can bear fruit upward." " I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree,... | |
 | Morning watch - 1832 - 502 pages
...the dew, in the following most elegant and exuberant passage, that shall Jacob be to the nations : " I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon : his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree,... | |
 | Joseph Fincher - 1832 - 80 pages
...Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. HOSEA xiv. 5 — 7. I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive... | |
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I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 
