 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.  The Anglo-Saxon - Page 181849 - 32 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 pages
...fatherless, and him that had none to help him : I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame : I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.' Thus will the merciful man show his strict observance of the evangelical precepts; ' Rejoice with them... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out." There is one view more to be taken of the subject ; it is, the confidence in God which religion inspires.... | |
 | Lucy Hake - 1828 - 334 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing with joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame, I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.—The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my doors to the traveller." For thus... | |
 | John Angell James - 1829 - 216 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out." Surely, surely, here is honour, much pure, legitimate, exalted honour, without the deacon's endeavouring... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame ; I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. " Did not I weep for. him that was in trouble ? Was not my soul grieved for the poor ? Let me be weighed... | |
 | John Everitt Good - 1829 - 692 pages
...: my judgment was a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out."§ To such a delineation nothing can be added, without disfiguring the scene. Let us, therefore, remark,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 528 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame : 1 was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not...the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.' ' If I have held the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail ; or have... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 528 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame : 1 was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not...the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.' ' If I have held the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail ; or have... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 606 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the Mind, and feet was I to the lame : I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not...brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil job xxxi. out of his teeth. If I have held the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 580 pages
...See what work Nehemiah made with the Sabbath-breakers. (Neh. xiii.) Job laith, (xxix. 16.) " I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out." And if in wrongs against men you must search, much more when against God. And if magistrates be not bound... | |
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