 | Apocryphal books (New Testament) - 1820 - 286 pages
...fast that I have chosen ? a clay for a man to afflict his soul ? 2 Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? 10 But to us he saith on this wise. 8 Is not this the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bands of... | |
 | 1822 - 872 pages
...be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen 1 a day for a man to afflict his soul 1 Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him 1 Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord 7 Is not this the fast that 1 have... | |
 | John Venn - Sermons, English - 1822 - 446 pages
...your heads mechanically, as a bulrush bends before the wind, without any real submission of the heart! "Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?" — It is evident, that a fast, disgraced by such insincerity, could not be acceptable to a pure and... | |
 | David Jennings - Bible - 1823 - 654 pages
...passage of Isaiah, "Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord J " Isa. Iviii, 5. Among the several external rites here particularly specified, as belonging to a... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...to the wicked. 22 Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? 23 Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1824 - 480 pages
...Isaiah, Iviii. 5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? 17 The Mercies of Redeeming Love. Romans, v. 7, 8, 9. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die... | |
 | sir John Bayley (1st bart) - 1824 - 774 pages
...on high. 5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day (я) for a man to afflict his soul ? h it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? 6. Js not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose (o) the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy... | |
 | William Hone - 1824 - 358 pages
...a fast that I have chosen ? A day for a man to afflict his soul ? 2ls it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under...call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord. he again from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the fmger, and speaking vanity : 16... | |
 | Jesse Fonda - Baptism - 1824 - 390 pages
...the Prophet Isaiah, in relation to the ancient fasts,f " Is this a day for a man to afflict his soul; to bow down his head as a bulrush; and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?*' Oh! no : It is the Christian jubilee,—it is the festival of our redemption,—it is the triumph of... | |
 | Jesse Fonda - Baptism - 1824 - 382 pages
...Prophet Isaiah, in relation to the ancient fasts,f " Is this a day for a man to afflict his soul ; te bow down his head as a bulrush ; and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?" Oh! no: It is the Christian jubilee, — it is the festival of our redemption, — it is the triumph... | |
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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? 
