 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...to teach them how to fly; and then compares it to the tender care and love of God to his people. " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over...them on her wings ; so the Lord alone did lead him [Jacob], and there was no strange God with him. He made him ride on the high places of the earth,"... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...as the following voice of divine sovereignty was echoed through the woods. ." As an eagle stirrcth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth...beareth them on her wings ; so the Lord alone did lead Jacob, and there was no strange God with him," Deut. zzxii. 11, 12. THE SAINTS TRIUMPH. As Eagles stir... | |
 | John Murray - Sermons, American - 1813 - 438 pages
...eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, flultereth over her young, spreadeth ahroad her wings, teketh them, beareth them on her wings : So the LORD alone did lead him."»Hosea, xi. 3, 4, " I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms ; but they knew not... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1818 - 348 pages
...29, 30, 31: « He keeps him as the apple of His eye. As an « eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttering over her « young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh...them, beareth them on her wings ; so the Lord * alone leads, defends, and saves those, who * trust in His defence, through the might of Jesus « Christ our... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 332 pages
...torches. How amiably is the tenderness and solicitude of GOD for his favourites expressed ! ' As the eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,...beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead them !' On the other hand, how dreadfully is his indignation described : ' I will be unto them as a... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1819 - 416 pages
...them, as the apple of His eye!" " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young ones, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead them." And so He leadeth, not them only, but all His people. He directs all their paths, and is their... | |
 | Samuel Horsley - Bible - 1820 - 442 pages
...and nothing less, I take to be the force of the word VUCBfl, " saginavit eum." Verses 11, 12. — " spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them...on her wings ; [so^ the Lord alone did lead him." — " taketh them, beareth them." The pronominal suffixes of the two verbs in the original are singular,... | |
 | Joseph Lancaster - Education - 1820 - 80 pages
...him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young gpreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings ; so the Lord alone did lead him."* I am rejoiced to find peace and righteousness, springing up and promising to flourish, in the councils... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - Sermons, English - 1821 - 500 pages
...their guardian and guide. " As an eagle stirreth up her " nest, fluttereth over her young, spread" eth abroad her wings, taketh them, " beareth them on her wings ; so the " Lord leadeth his people." " I will " bring the blind by a way that they know ** not," says he ; "I will... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 536 pages
...say of our Creator with Moses, as an eagle stirreth up her nest,flntte]eth (>ver herymmg, spreadetli abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her -wings, so the Lord hath condescended to take care of his creature man. Yet Mr. Hume, writhing beneath the tortures of... | |
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The Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth... 
