| Jeremy Taylor - 1816 - 374 Seiten
...walking, thou wilt be the loser ; and for us we can only say, in the words of the prophet, We will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.^ But our comfort is in God : for we can do nothing without him, but in him we can do all things. And... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 412 Seiten
...fall among them that fall ; in the lime of their visitation they shall be cast down from the LORD. Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ! Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men ; that I might leave my people,... | |
| Legh Richmond - 1817 - 806 Seiten
...Jeremiah (chap, ix.), " Oh} that my head were full of water, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people, for they be adulterers, and an assembly of rebels." Sword and destruction cometh upon them, and they... | |
| Seth Williston - 1817 - 274 Seiten
...hear thce ; the prophet Stid, Oh that my head were •zaters, and mine eyes a fountain of tcarst that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter oj my fieofile. Such feelings as these wei e perfectly compatible with a reconciliation to the revealed... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 638 Seiten
...waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law." And again, in Jeremiah ix. 1, he exclaims, "Oh! that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people." Hear what Isaiah says, (liii. 3.) "That he was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief." Truly... | |
| Lyman Beecher, Samuel Worcester, Brown Emerson - 1819 - 54 Seiten
...by it : while the enemy, laughing at our credulity, moves on in firm phalanx, to divide and conquer. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people. 7. Churches of different denominations, who regard each other as composed generally, of members giving... | |
| Robert Balfour - 1819 - 228 Seiten
...When Jeremiah thought on the guilt and miseries of Israel, he exclaimed with bitter lamentation. " Oh, that my head were waters, and " mine eyes a fountain...I might " weep day and night for the slain of the daugh" ter of my people!" and shall we be unmoved by the wickedness and woes of Pagan countries ? can... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1831 - 516 Seiten
...— Jer. viii. 21, S2. . ~*~ Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that 1 might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people ! O that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and... | |
| Richard Carlile - 1820 - 660 Seiten
...the above-mentioned subject, I should have exclaimed with the prophet (poet) of ancient Judah— " Oh that my head were waters ! •and mine eyes a fountain...tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of my people!" What think you, Sir, of those people who were slain at Manchester, innocent and unoffending?... | |
| 1836 - 514 Seiten
...silence here that is terrible. We have felt a peculiar sympathy to-day with Jeremiah, when he exclaimed, "Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain...night for the slain of the daughter of my people!" It has been a sweet relief to our burdened souls to weep in secret places. The eye that looks out upon... | |
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