| Mary Martha Sherwood - Conduct of life - 1831 - 308 pages
...Sabbath; when every hill and every valley will resound with the praises of the Lord; when the Spirit shall be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful Jield, and the fruitful field be counted for afore^l." (Isaiah xxxii. 15.) In this manner did the old... | |
| 1832 - 378 pages
...Isaiah ii. 3—5.) " And the Spirit shall be poured upon you from on high, and the wilderness shall be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted...the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteous340 THE COMPARATIVE COINCIDENCE ness quietness and assurance... | |
| Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 734 pages
...last verse. If it were asked the prophet, How long shall this state of desolation last ? he answers, " until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and...field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest." Thus the prophet teaches us, that the desolations will not come to an end, until, in consequence of... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...shew judgment to the Oentilet.] Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers, &c. &c. tered Ctfterea), Held, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest, then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness,... | |
| Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 pages
...left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks : 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance... | |
| A. W. Plumstead - 1991 - 400 pages
...established, the government is safe, and the persons of their rulers secure. Then, as the prophet speaks: Judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful land. And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance... | |
| Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; 15 herefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to 16 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field 17 And... | |
| Jerrold E. Hogle - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 433 pages
...former rulers] shall [stand] forsaken" while their "forts and towers" become "a pasture of flocks ... Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field" and "the wolf and lamb ... feed together" in a sympathy as yet unknown (Isaiah 32:14-15 and 62:25). This poet,... | |
| R. B. Onians, Richard Broxton Onians - History - 1988 - 606 pages
...TRANSMITTED 493 123 ff., 174 ff., 189 if., 234, etc.). That identification will explain Isa. xxxii, 15: 'Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high and the wilderness become a fruitful field' (cf. xliv, 3 f. and pp. 189 ff.). This is naturally understood of Yahweh as... | |
| William H. New - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 300 pages
...95, 1og, 114-15. M5). political expansions.* The words of the prophet Isaiah were taken literally: 'Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high,...wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field' (32: 15-16). By these terms, order - the sequence of surveying, clearing, cultivation, property establishment,... | |
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