The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass.... The Evangelist - Page 274edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
| 1611 - 360 pages
...mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: . Because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: Surely the people is grass. The... | |
| William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 544 pages
...green and groweth up ,• in the evening it is cut down, dried up and withered *. — All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : — the grass witheretht the flower fadeth ; but the word of our God shall stand for ever f . In their decay, the... | |
| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1820 - 540 pages
...learning from experience, and feeling with conviction, that " all flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, and the flower fadeth." — The poor man entering here, and gazing on yon spectacle of wo, accounteth not himself as vile,... | |
| Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...grass," and " that afl the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : the grass withereth.the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it. Surely the people is grass. And the holy man Job, having himself had great experience of the miserable and sinful estate... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...[is] crass, and all the goodliness thereof [is! as 7 the flower of the field : The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the peo8 pie [is] grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : hut the word of our God »hall stand... | |
| Joseph Washburn, Asahel Hooker - Congregational churches - 1807 - 388 pages
...flesh is grass, and all the goodi'iness thereof as the flower of the field. The grass wHiicrcth — the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it — surely the people is grass." In the book of Job we have numerous attestations of the like import : " For we are but of... | |
| Thomas Chalkley - Christian life - 1808 - 582 pages
...was pretty largely opened in the meeting, on the words of the prophet, where he says, " All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: sure, ly the people is grass. The... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...valley shall be c.ralted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. XL. 1 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth : because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. As the grass withereth and as the flower fadeth, upon every nipping wind or scorching sun... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...of the Lord hath spoken it. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry : All flesh is grabs, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass wilhereth, the flower fudtih] because the Spirit of the lxird blowcth upon it : suruly the. people... | |
| Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 518 pages
...IMMUTABILITY OF THE GOSPEL. Isai. xl. 6—8. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fudethi because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The... | |
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