 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 548 pages
...registers all your groans, •• he putteth your tears into his bottle," and, ere long, " he will give you the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for your present spirit of heaviness." In the mean time, let me recommend to you the following directions,... | |
 | William Jay - 1821 - 294 pages
...— We would sympathize with those who are in distress. Give to those that mourn in Zion, beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Bless all the institutions which are established to iliffuse the scriptures, and to send... | |
 | 1826 - 918 pages
...Saviour, who came to bind up the broken-hearted, to comfort all that mourn, and to free the prisoners, and give them . beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. 1 was going to add, standing here as a Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, my word... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1822 - 576 pages
...proclaimed, and a notable change there is of their estate who mourn in Zion, giving them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Think with what joy the long imprisoned debtor, drowned in debt, receives a full discharge,... | |
 | Martha Routh - 1822 - 332 pages
...might appertain to them ; who through the mouth of His prophet declared, He would give " Beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." Slst of 1st Month, First day. We attended meeting at Piney Woods, in the morning, and... | |
 | 1822 - 682 pages
...and the opening of prison doors to them that are bound, in vain ? Did He promise to give beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness unto them that mourn in Zion, and will He refuse to beautify the mind, anoint the head,... | |
 | 1827 - 916 pages
...voice of the Son of God is, The " Lord hath sent me to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." Come, ye tempted, who are borne down with the violence of the law in your members, and... | |
 | John Arrowsmith - 1822 - 410 pages
...the Feast of Tabernacles at the end of harvest. II. Because Jesus Christ was " anointed to give us the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."^ He himself indeed was anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows, but such... | |
 | 1848 - 704 pages
...shalt be clothed with beautiful garments, and anointed with the oil of gladness. He will give thee the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. LETTERS FROM A MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTERS. Written many years ago by the Wife of a Wesleyan... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 722 pages
...goodness, I had not fainted in my trouble. Isaiah foretels0, that it should be Christ's office " to give the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." For St. John saw in the spirit, that they that follow Christ, are clothed " in white... | |
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Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. 
