 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...blessing still richer and more unlimited than before, beginning with the beautiful and poetic language, How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 428 pages
...Hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good ?" Then, " how goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel."' — Therefore, " blessed are the people that know the joyful sound : they shall walk, O Lord, in the... | |
 | Christian biography - 1835 - 434 pages
...as spectators at the holy solemnity, and looking down upon the privileged partakers, sigh and say, " How goodly are thy tents, O JacOb, and thy tabernacles, O Israel !" — yet are resirained from approaching, not by carnality but timidity ; and by forgetting that... | |
 | Education - 1835 - 670 pages
...words of God, Which saw the vision of the Almighty, Falling iiUo a trance, but having his eyes open : 6 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! And thy tabernacles, O Israel ! fi As the valleys arc they spread forth, As gardens by the river's side, As the trees of lign aloes... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 608 pages
...they are likened to an army, with an invincible general at their head, which made Balaam to cry out, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob ! and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion : who shall stir him up 1" Thus you see what... | |
 | Bible - 1836 - 710 pages
...of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trctnce,l>ut having his eyes open : 5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! 6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes... | |
 | Henry Martin - 1836 - 114 pages
...thus, like one of old, when sent for to curse " whom God had not cursed," he is made to exclaim, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! and thy tabernacles, O Israel!" surely we have abundant cause to bow under a reverent sense of the mercy and goodness of God, through... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - Christianity - 1836 - 418 pages
...of Israel abiding in their tents, with the glory in the midst of them, could not help exclaiming, ' How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! ' Numb. xxiv. 5. ' How amiable,' then, may the Christian say, are those eternal mansions from whence... | |
 | John Barrow - Ireland - 1836 - 454 pages
...Achill, touch his heart, and bring to his recollection that beautiful apostrophe of Balaam of old ? " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee." Ah, no ! his heart would appear... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 1836 - 396 pages
...1 to the end. So, therefore, when Balaam saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes, he said, " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel," Numb. xxiv. 1, 2, 3, 5. In the breast-plate of judgment, which was the urim and thummim, wherein were... | |
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How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters. 
