 | 1799 - 224 pages
...would only leave another equally grievous, under this emphatic figure : — ELISHA AND THE MOCKERS. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! To what end is it for you ? The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, And... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...compared with our Lord's description of the approach of the destruction of Jerusalem, in Luke xvii. 22. Woe unto you that desire THE DAY OF THE LORD — -to what end is it for you ? THE DAY OF THE LOKD is darkness and not light. . . From these examples, it is abundantly... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...trade, and practice, is to make common lamentation, shall now mourn in earnest, without a hire. V. 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD ! to what end is it for you ? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. Woe to those amongst you, that mock... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 pages
...corrupters. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them." Jer. vi. 28, 30. " Wo unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! To what end in it for you? The day of the Lord ii darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and... | |
 | 1813 - 600 pages
...the attempts to convert the inhabitants of pagan countries, in deference to the clamors of men, whe demand miracles merely because they believe they will...unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end in it for you? the day of the Lord is itarknesisy und not light. For the Pauoplist ON SLANDER. To slander... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...wailing. 17 And in all vineyards s/iail be wailing : for 1 will pass through thee, saith the LORD. 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD ! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion,... | |
 | Amicus Protestans - 1822 - 274 pages
...feelings of complacency, or joy — "As for me, I have not desired the woeful day, thou knowest."— " Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord — to what end is it for you ? Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light — even very dark, and no... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1822 - 362 pages
...lamentation to wailing. And in all vineyards shall be wailing : for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! to what end is it for you? The day of the Lord is darkness and not light. As if a man did flee -from a lion, and... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 394 pages
...else we do nothing but ask our own condemnation, as the Prophet Amos hath most awfully warned us ; " Woe unto you *' that desire the day of the Lord. To what end " is it for you ; the day of the Lord is darkness, " and not light." » To instruct us therefore on... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shiill be wailing : for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. 18 to true teaie it given by our translators. 1UP. VI. Vet. is it for you? the day of the LORD i* Jarkaess, and not light. I'1 As if a man did flee from a ion,... | |
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Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. 
