 | 1843 - 606 pages
...fill the child of God with grief. " Why should not my countenance be sad," cried the pious Nehemiah, " when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ?" Nor was he the only child of God who has " sat down and... | |
 | 640 pages
...were burned with fire. He said unto the king, who asked him why he was sad, when he was not sick, " Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city,...place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?" But a place of sepulchres lying waste is not, after all,... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1844 - 154 pages
...long that, through respect for the dead, she may be again God's witness of the coming immortality. Oh, why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste 1 If thy servant have- found favor in thy sight, 0 king, send me unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres,... | |
 | 1841 - 1136 pages
...heart. Then 1 was very He vmlctk Jerusalem, 3 And said unto tlie king, Let the! king live forever: e away,and be afraid out of their close places. 46 The LOUD liveth ; an father's sepulchres, Lleik waste, and the gates thereof are cousuined with fire ? 4 Then the kin said... | |
 | 636 pages
...demand filled Nehemiah with fear; and he tremblingly answered — •" Let the king live for ever; why should not my countenance be sad, when the city — the place of my father's sepulchres — Jieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire ? Then the king said... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 702 pages
...presence of " the king of kings," Nehemiah was much alarmed, bat answered, " Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad when the city, the place of mv fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?" Tbe king encouraged... | |
 | 1871 - 792 pages
...sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city,...place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ? Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1845 - 688 pages
...presence of "the king of kings," Nehemiah was much alarmed, but answered, " Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchre', lieili waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire ?" The king encouraged him to... | |
 | 1845 - 1174 pages
...might see and feel the awful crisis we have reached ! We would then feel like Nehemiah, when he said, " Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire." Like Esther, the queen,... | |
 | 1845 - 600 pages
...see and feel the awful crisis we have reached ! We would then feel like frehemiah, when he said, " Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my father's sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire." Like Esther, the queen,... | |
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Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'... 
