 | Thomas Boston - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 554 pages
...fair afar off, yet when they come near and apply it, still they find it unsuitable; it will not do: "The bed is shorter" than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower, than that he can wrap himself in it." And this makes the heart secretely sigh, while it is attacked with a new dissatisfaction on every new... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 704 pages
...will reveal the wonders it has wrought. CES AN ANOMALY! AN an omaly ! What ia an anomaly ? " Why, that the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it," (Isaiah xxviii. 20,) when there were materials and space to have made it to any dimensions. How short-sighted... | |
 | E J. Standish - 1851 - 258 pages
...But the sufferings of his body afforded no relief to the tortures of his soul. He found, that truly "the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." Walter retained an ineffaceable impression of Scripture truths, which, though he had once disregarded... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Jews - 1851 - 416 pages
...shall it pass over, by day and by night ; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For the LORD shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that... | |
 | Bible - 1851 - 922 pages
...over, by day and by night: p and it shah1 be a vexation only t io understand the report. 20 For ithe he charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits,...wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I $ give over into the a 2,15. 8.8. Jer. 47:2. Dan. 8: 9—13. 9:-26,21. 11:40. Re». 12: 15,16. 17:15. * Heb. a treading... | |
 | Alexander Keith - Apocalyptic literature - 1851 - 472 pages
...and by night; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter tlian that a man' can stretch himself on it ; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For the LORD shall rise up as in Mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of G-ibeon, tliat... | |
 | Beaver Henry Blacker - 1852 - 212 pages
...turn for consolation, it may with truth be said, in the proverbial language of Isaiah (xxviii. 20), " The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it ;" familiar, but most expressive words, to show their insufficiency to give rest and comfort to the... | |
 | Jean [comms. on the Bible] Calvin - 1852 - 498 pages
...pass over, by day and by night ; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 20. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 21. For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth 11. Quoniam balbis labiis et... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge - Church and state - 1852 - 304 pages
...agreement with hell shall not stand. For your bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. — xxviii. from them.* But be this as it may, and whatever be its effects, it is not probable that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge - Philosophy and religion - 1852 - 300 pages
...agreement with hell shall not stand, for yow bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself upon it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.—xxviii. from them.* But be this as it may, and whatever be its effects, it is not probable that... | |
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For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. 
