 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...way, and the almond tree shall flourish* and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Thea shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.... | |
 | Thomas Smith Webb - 1808 - 348 pages
...because man goeth to his long home., and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silyer cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...at the cistern : then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." The working tools of a master... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : 6 none is able to withstand thee ? 7 Art not thou our...of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 580 pages
...he free his soul from the power of the grave?" Psa. Ixxxix. And to speak the language of Solomon, " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern :"' that is to SIT, the back-bone, where marrow is as white as silver, be loosed ; when the skull,... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1810 - 614 pages
...he free his soul from the power of the grave?" Psa. Ixxxix. And to spe^ak the language of Solomon, " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern :" that is t» say, the back-bone, where marrow is as white as silver, be loosed ; when the skull,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...and that those who bewail our loss, may not sorrow as others which have no hope, 1 Thess. iv. 13. 6. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Some interpreters understand this verse literally : first, of the ornaments : secondly, of the more... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 pages
...while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when we shall say, we have no pleasure in them; or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern m " When affliction comes upon us, it may be too late for us to profit by it. It may come, when our... | |
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...boldly shadowed forth by Solomon in describing the decay of nature and the creeping on of old age ? " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the cistern ; " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : " And the spirit shall return to God who gave it." We have thus attempted to show... | |
 | 1818 - 632 pages
...reciprocally attempted the discomfilure or harassment of the opponent, " or even the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher...fountain, or the •wheel broken at the cistern," when the dust shall return to the earth — the wish that our latter end may be like his. I conclude... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pages
...and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners...fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall tbe dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. I will say... | |
| |
... also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the... 
