The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament: LamentationsFunk & Wagnalls, 1892 |
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... holy men of God , moved by the Holy Spirit , trammel or order their emotions by the demands of an alphabet and metre ? It was an old Greek and Roman belief that , " When the gods spoke they spoke in verse " ( Hatch ) . Why should not ...
... holy men of God , moved by the Holy Spirit , trammel or order their emotions by the demands of an alphabet and metre ? It was an old Greek and Roman belief that , " When the gods spoke they spoke in verse " ( Hatch ) . Why should not ...
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... Holy One of Israel is forsaken and overthrown . The ways of Zion , not the streets in Jerusalem leading up to the Temple , but the roads from all quarters of the land , which found their termini in the Holy hill , are mournful , for ...
... Holy One of Israel is forsaken and overthrown . The ways of Zion , not the streets in Jerusalem leading up to the Temple , but the roads from all quarters of the land , which found their termini in the Holy hill , are mournful , for ...
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... holy mountain desecrated have been regarded . Now the poet gives the name of the city , which he shrank from ... holy cities are become a wilderness , Zion is become a wilderness , Jerusalem a desolation . Our holy and beautiful house ...
... holy mountain desecrated have been regarded . Now the poet gives the name of the city , which he shrank from ... holy cities are become a wilderness , Zion is become a wilderness , Jerusalem a desolation . Our holy and beautiful house ...
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... holy and beauti- ful house where our fathers praised Thee , and now it was burned up with fire . Nor did He recall any past manifestations of His presence to stay His hand from working : He has not remem- bered His footstool ; the ...
... holy and beauti- ful house where our fathers praised Thee , and now it was burned up with fire . Nor did He recall any past manifestations of His presence to stay His hand from working : He has not remem- bered His footstool ; the ...
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... Holy One for a flame . Jews might have felt that the Chaldeans and others had made their land as a desolate wilderness ; we might feel that , when we are worsted in " the struggle for life , " our " environment " has been unfavourable ...
... Holy One for a flame . Jews might have felt that the Chaldeans and others had made their land as a desolate wilderness ; we might feel that , when we are worsted in " the struggle for life , " our " environment " has been unfavourable ...
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abominations affliction Ammonites Assyria Babylon blessing calamity called Canaan captivity Chaldeans chap cherubim Christ Christian Church corruption covenant death desolate destruction Deut Divine earth Edom Egypt enemies evil EXEGETICAL eyes Ezekiel faith fathers fear fire GERM NOTES give glory God's Gospel grace hand hath heart heathen heaven Hebrew Hengstenberg holy HOMILETICS honour hope human idolatry idols iniquity Israelites Jehoiachin Jehovah Jeremiah Jerusalem Jesus Jews Judah Judea judgment king King of Babylon kingdom kingdom of Judah land land of Israel light living Lord ment mercy misery moral nations nature Nebuchadnezzar ness prayer priests princes promise prophecy prophet punishment religion religious repentance righteous ruin Samaria sanctuary sinners sins sorrow soul Spirit suffering sword Temple thee things Thou hast thought tion true truth unto utter vers verse vision wicked word worship wrath Zedekiah Zion
Popular passages
Page 31 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Page 68 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 82 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Page 10 - Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me : thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
Page 177 - Although my house be not so with God; yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although He make it not to grow.
Page 82 - The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Page 79 - Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning : thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Page 230 - BEHOLD, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; Neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Page 157 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Page 32 - That I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh...