The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary on the Old Testament: LamentationsFunk & Wagnalls, 1892 |
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... Never was ruined city lamented in language so exquisitely pathetic . Jerusalem is , as it were , personified , and bewailed with the passionate sorrow of private and domestic attachment . While the more general pictures successively ...
... Never was ruined city lamented in language so exquisitely pathetic . Jerusalem is , as it were , personified , and bewailed with the passionate sorrow of private and domestic attachment . While the more general pictures successively ...
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... never so fascinating , so tender , so bewitchingly irresistible in com- manding sympathy as when she is in tears ! The hardest heart is melted , the sternest enemy subdued . The sorrow of Judah was overwhelming because the ruin was so ...
... never so fascinating , so tender , so bewitchingly irresistible in com- manding sympathy as when she is in tears ! The hardest heart is melted , the sternest enemy subdued . The sorrow of Judah was overwhelming because the ruin was so ...
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... never mentioned within their walls . That may seem a paradox , but it is none ; for it is a historic fact that hospitals are the crea- tion of Christian times and of Christian men . The heathen knew them not . In the great city of ...
... never mentioned within their walls . That may seem a paradox , but it is none ; for it is a historic fact that hospitals are the crea- tion of Christian times and of Christian men . The heathen knew them not . In the great city of ...
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... never do we find among our Lord's followers anything approaching to a spiritual craze . This health of theirs came in great measure from their being constantly employed about matters of which their hearts were full . The busy man has ...
... never do we find among our Lord's followers anything approaching to a spiritual craze . This health of theirs came in great measure from their being constantly employed about matters of which their hearts were full . The busy man has ...
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... never indifferent to her sufferings . 3. The Church should learn to make the best of prosperous times . GERM NOTES ON THE VERSES . Ver . 5. " Her adversaries are the chief ; her enemies prosper . " New masters : 1. Soon make evident ...
... never indifferent to her sufferings . 3. The Church should learn to make the best of prosperous times . GERM NOTES ON THE VERSES . Ver . 5. " Her adversaries are the chief ; her enemies prosper . " New masters : 1. Soon make evident ...
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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...