 Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot...  Tracts for the Christian seasons - Page 1526de Christian seasons - 1864Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1803 - 440 pages
...extends to the meanest rank of his creatures, is expressed with wonderful tenderness : " Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons... .and also much cattle!" And we have in Deuteronomy a precept of great goodnature of this sort, with... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...-with anger, from this event, God graciously argues with him concerning Nineveh. 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou...•which came up in a night, and perished in a night : thou thickest it a pity that so beautiful and comfortable a plant should 11 be so soon destroyed,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...with anger. From this event, God graciously argues with him concerning Nineveh. 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither nradest it grow ; •which came up in a night, and perished in a night : thou thinkett it a pity that... | |
 | Laurence Howel - 1807 - 588 pages
...compassion on the gourd, for " which thou hast not laboured, neither didst thou make " it grow, and which came up in a night, and perished in " a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great ci" ty, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons " that cannot discern between their right hand... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...upon tiicc from the womb, thou art my God from my mother's belly. Ps. Ixxi. 6. Jonah iv. 11. God said should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern them between their right hand and their left ? Mark... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...done, as to wish, in the bitterness of my soul, to be rid of my life. IV. 10, 1 1 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither modest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night : And should not I spare Nineveh,... | |
 | William Newcome - 1809 - 424 pages
...as well as for the loss of its shelter. — in- a night] Some MSS. and editions read joU? and tOi. cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? at a fifth part, the city contained six hundred thousand inhabitants. See Boch. Geogr. 252, 3. —... | |
 | James Macknight - 1809 - 644 pages
...where God makes hii compassion to brute beasts, one of the reasons why he would cot destroy Nineveh. " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much... | |
 | Ezekiel Blomfield - 1809 - 690 pages
...where God makes his compassion to brute beasts one of the reasons why he would not destroy Nineveh : " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six icore thousand persons,' that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 498 pages
...I dowelHobe angry, even TOto death. Then said the Lo RD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, 'lor'the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow...spare "Nineveh that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also... | |
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