 | Robert MacCulloch - 1800 - 688 pages
...and filver, 'filver, and timber, and imagine them to have created the earth. 22 It is he that fitted* upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grafshoppers ; that flretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and fpreadeth them out as a tent to dwell... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...that, though the Almighty is '' the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity;" though "He rideth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;" though before Him ''the nations are us a drop in the bucket, and the small dust of the balance ;" yet... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Reformed Church - 1803 - 422 pages
...Behold, the nations are as the drop of a bucket. Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,...and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers.. The prophet's design in describing the Deity with so much magnificence is to discountenance idolatry,... | |
 | 1803 - 466 pages
...In Scripture it is styled the heavens. — " Who stretcheth out " the heavens like a curtain!* — That stretcheth out the heavens " as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in f." How far this expansion of the heavens extends, is another ques-» tion. That portion of it diffused... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...ear, but now mine eye seeth thee^ : I see the eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient God, who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; who spreadcth out the heavens as a tent to dwell in, and looks down on the nations as the drop of... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 pages
...ear, but now mine eye seelh thee\ : I see the eternal, self-existent, self-sufficient God, who sits upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; who spreadeth out the heavens as a tent to dwell in, and looks down on the nations as the drop of... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - 1803 - 382 pages
...Humility. OMO^T, High God, infinitely glorious above all our expressions or our thoughts! Thou sjttest on the Circle of the earth,, and the inhabitants thereof are as -grasshoppers.; yea,, before thee, all nations $rre .a^no.thingj and counted to . thee less .than nothing and vanity.... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God ? or what likeness will ye compare uuto him? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers -T that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, that spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : that,... | |
 | John Mitchell - British - 1805 - 260 pages
...generous, altogether immaculate, yet most propitious to sinful man. Let us hear her delineations. " He sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grashoppers before him: he stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadcth them out as a tent... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Christian life - 1806 - 292 pages
...ye not heard? Hath it nat " been told you from the beginning ? " Have ye not understood from the " foundations of the earth ? It is " HE that sitteth...spreadeth them out " as a tent to dwell in : that bring" eth the princes to nothing : he " maketh the judges of the earth as ." vanity. He shall blow... | |
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : That bringeth the princes to nothing; He maketh the judges... 
