 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 страници
...mystery of godliness. " Behold, (saith the prophet, Isa. 40 : 15, 17,) the nations are as the drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance ; he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 страници
...the hills in a " balance. Behold the nations," proceeds the sublime Isaiah, " are as a drop of the " bucket, and are counted as the small dust " of the...behold he taketh up the " isles as a very little thing. All nations " before him are as nothing, and they are " counted to him as less than nothing, and "... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 330 страници
...of the illiterate Jews! before whom, to use this poet's own words, all other gods are ' as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.' Had I been acquainted with this wonderful volume, while I was writing my treatise on the Pathetic,... | |
 | 1803 - 240 страници
...the illiterate Jews ! before whom, to use this poet's own words, all other gods are " as a drop of a bucket," and are counted " as the small dust of the balance." Had I been acquainted with this wonderful volume, while I was writing my treatise on the Pathetic,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 страници
...taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the...behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1805 - 260 страници
...mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance. Behold the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and counted as the small dust of the balance ; behold he taketh up the isles as a very little tiling. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1806 - 406 страници
...of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Behold all nations, are as a drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the balance. All before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. He bringeth... | |
 | 1807 - 570 страници
...him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding ? 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the...behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-oftering. 17... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1807 - 384 страници
...is the King of Kings : he it is, in whose presence all the potentates of the earth, are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance, Isa. xl. 15. He it is, by whose supreme authority kings reign, and princes decree justice, Prov. viii.... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 страници
...Messiah to be exhibited in the flesh, Behold your God. XL. 1 5 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance. What needest thou care, O Israel, for all the world, if thy God be tor thee ? Alas, how poor a thing... | |
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Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 
