 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 642 pages
...heart sinks within me often when I think of what may too soon be, and I say, in those touching words, "Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres. lieth waste, and her gates are burnt with fire." Take care of yourself, and endeavor to... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1846 - 652 pages
...heart sinks within me often when I think of what may too soon be, and I say, in those touching words, "Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres. lieth waste, and her gates are burnt with fire." From Mr. Lugare to the Hon. A. Huger.... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1170 pages
...Prideaux, Anno 445. beforelime sad hi his presence. AM 3559. 2 Wherefore the king said unto me, — Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick?...but "sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, c Pror. xv. 13. CHAPTER H. Artaxerxts sends Ndiemiah to Jerusalem, with a commission to build the wall,... | |
 | 1847 - 1278 pages
...the king. Now 1 hud not been beforetime sad in his presence. 2 Wherefore the king said unto me. Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ? this is nothing else but sorrow c of heart. Then I was very sore afraid. SC 446. ' !Kt.a28,29. 2Ch.6.40. ?Ps.34.15. Pa. 147.2. Kit.... | |
 | 1849 - 206 pages
...though he was cup-bearer to a great king, yet his affections are still the same to his country : " Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire." Abraham that was so ready to... | |
 | Edward Bather - 1850 - 358 pages
...and the king, who had a liking for him, took notice of it with much kindness; and "Why," he asks, " is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ?...this is nothing else but sorrow of heart." " Then," says Nehemiah, " I was very sore afraid." Though he had been strengthening himself by waiting upon... | |
 | 1927 - 486 pages
...to the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. Wherefore the king said to me, "Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick?...but sorrow of heart." Then I was very sore afraid/' 9 And I said to the king, "Let the king live forever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the... | |
 | Donald Alexander Mackenzie - 1927 - 344 pages
..." sad in his presence ". The prophet's own narrative states: " Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart." Nehemiah related the cause of his grief and received permission from Artaxerxes to visit Jerusalem... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 532 pages
...heart sinks within me often when I think of what may too soon be, and I say, in those touching words, "Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and her gates are burnt with fire." {Writings, Vol. I, p. 215.) Thus like... | |
 | Charles M. Sheldon - 1924 - 664 pages
...it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick ?...sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid. And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city,... | |
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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... 
