 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 528 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. adherents a contempt for the understandings of all who differ from them.^ But be this as... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Bible - 1854 - 554 pages
...back. As soon as by day and by night ; and it shall bea 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. 2 or, when he than make you to und- rs'and doctrine. the judgment is sent f< rth from God it shall... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards - Congregational churches - 1842 - 562 pages
...not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." But however these things might have been written with an immediate reference to the Jews, and to the... | |
 | James Caughey, Daniel Wise - Christian life - 1855 - 422 pages
...comfort; the material may be good, but too little of it. The prophet's illustration is good, — " For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." — Isa. 28: 20. Uncomfortable, rather, for a weary body and a cold night, — decidedly so in religious... | |
 | Andrew Bruce Davidson - Bible - 1902 - 274 pages
...it pass over, by day and by night : And it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. 15 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, 20 He shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, That... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1903 - 456 pages
...save your country is wrong ; you reject the one foundation stone and arrange only destruction, " for the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." The reader should take this eloquent passage or something similar and study it carefully until his... | |
 | Owen Charles Whitehouse - Bible - 1905 - 418 pages
...day and by night : and it shall be nought , but terror to understand the message. For the bed is 20 shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he 21 shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that... | |
 | Henry Sloane Coffin - Presbyterian Church - 1907 - 296 pages
...its quarrels with Assyria. Isaiah will have nothing to do with credulity or shifty political devices. "The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." The broad principles of justice, followed in quiet trust in a God who loveth righteousness, are the... | |
 | Henry Sloane Coffin - Presbyterian Church - 1907 - 298 pages
...to minister, and to give His life for the emancipation of many. X CRAMPED LIVES Isaiah 28 : 30. "For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it" ISAIAH coins or quotes this homely proverb in a sermon he is preaching to the leading people in Jerusalem... | |
 | Ignatia Breme - Bible - 1907 - 120 pages
...be plowed like a field . . . Jerem. 26, 18. . and be holden in cords of affliction. Job 36, 8. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself...covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Isaiah 28, 20. In der Schilderung des Himmels nimmt die Dichterin ihre Bilder und Vergleiche hauptsächlich... | |
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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. 
