 | John James - 1840 - 946 pages
...against me ? Now, behold, thou trustest upon ' ie staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so is Pharaoh ting of Egypt unto all that „ The audacitv of ^ ^^1, i, trust on him. "But if ye say unparalleled.... | |
 | George Eduard Biber - 1840 - 540 pages
...he who rests his faith in any degree upon tradition, is " trusting in the staff• of a broken reed, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it."a • Isa. xxxvi. 6. APPENDIX, NO. II. 395 APPENDIX, No. II. " Among the remedies proposed against... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1841 - 810 pages
...retract it, in order to avoid some still greater violation of the Law." WELLBKLOVED.* Is. xxxvi. 6 : " Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed,...Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him." " The same image is used concerning Egypt in Ezek. xxix. 6, 7. This comparison was the more obvious... | |
 | 1841 - 214 pages
...nation. " Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it : so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him," 2 Kings xviii. 21. See also, Ezek. xxix. 6, 7. The Cucumber.- — This... | |
 | 1841 - 848 pages
...false and deceitful, and our trusting in it is like " trusting in the staff of a broken reed, on which, if a man lean, it will go into his hand and pierce it." Now, that in God is indeed our only help, is obvious from the single circumstance of his having interposed... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...have counsel and strength for war : now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me ? 6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed,...is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. 7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God : is it not he, whose high places and whose altars... | |
 | 1842 - 544 pages
...21, be enhanced by the consideration that the reed is the emblem of royalty ? " Lo, thou trustest on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if...a man lean it will go into his hand and pierce it : such is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all that trust on him." The reed was also the emblem of Upper... | |
 | 1843 - 1108 pages
.../ have counsel and strength for war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellcst against me? G Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this Broken reed,...into his hand and pierce it : so is Pharaoh king of Egyp* to all that trust in him. 7 But if thou say to me ; We trust in the LORD our God : is it not... | |
 | 1882 - 396 pages
...alliance by the marriage of Solomon with Pharaoh's daughter, the Jews proved it to be a " broken reed, whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand and...Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him." Here the prophet Jeremiah spent the latter days of his life, and here he was probably stoned by the... | |
 | Disney ROBINSON - 1843 - 200 pages
...and strength for war: now on whom doth thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Lo, thou trusteth in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon...man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it."^ Oh ! shall man, vain man, think to do great things for himself, when, of himself, he can do nothing... | |
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Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me ? Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust... 
