 | John Hawkesworth - English essays - 1823 - 302 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 650 pages
...and solicitude of God for his favourites expressed ! ' As the eagle stirreth up her nest, flutlereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh...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... | |
 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1864 - 686 pages
...victory over them all, through the blood of the Lamb. To you I may apply those sublime words of Moses, " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over...them, beareth them on her wings;" so the Lord alone does and will lead you, Deut. xxxii. 11, 12; defend you, cherish you, and bear you along to your eternal... | |
 | James Ellice - 1824 - 92 pages
...instructed him, He kept him as the apple of his eye. As the eagle stirreth up her nest, Jiuttereth over her YOUNG, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh...them on her wings ; so the Lord alone did lead him ! Turn again to the words in the prophet's last blessing : The " JETERNAL" God, O Israel, is thy REFUGE,... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 548 pages
...his eye ; though, as an eagle stirreth upon her nest, fluttereth over her young ones, spreadeth out her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead it ; though it hath been as the -signet on his right-hand,' yet, if it continues thus to treat Him,... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 538 pages
...his eye ; though, as an eagle stirreth upon her nest, fluttereth over her young ones, spreadeth out her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead it ; though it hath been as the signet on his right hand,' yet, if it continues thus to treat Him,... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 1090 pages
...his eye ; though, as an eagle stirreth upon her nest, fluttereth over her young ones, spreadeth out her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead it ; though it hath been as the signet on his right hand,' yet, if it continues thus to treat Him,... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...affection which the female cherishes for her young, is described by Moses in these memorable terms : '* As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over...alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him."e< It ia indeed preteiided by some writers, that when the eaglets are somewhat grown, the mother... | |
 | Pocket prayer book - 1825 - 578 pages
...eagle stirreth up her nest, and fluttereth over her young; spreadeth abroad hei wings, taketh them and beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead him. All these, and a world of the like expressions in the Book of God, are meant to unveil the love of... | |
 | William Bruce - 1826 - 464 pages
...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 over...them on her wings ; so the Lord alone did lead him : there was no strange God with him." Indeed the whole conduct of the Old Testament shews, that there... | |
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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... 
