Extracts from the Letters of Elizabeth, Lucy, Judith, and Susanna Ussher, Late of the City of Waterford: To which is Subjoined a Short Memoir of Their Mother Elizabeth UssherC. Gilpin, 1845 - 108 pages |
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Page 62 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Page 36 - Thou givest us beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
Page 68 - O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Page 53 - Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Page 27 - Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 72 - Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous : nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them who are. exercised thereby.
Page 55 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 34 - Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father, which is in heaven...