 | Alexander Fletcher - Agriculture - 1845 - 546 pages
..."U1, DAGAN. Gathering together, or sitting on chickens. MATT. xxni. 3. — " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often •would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings. IT is the opinion of some highly respectable Hebrew scholars, that these words in Jerem.... | |
 | Samuel Horatio Stearns - Congregational churches - 1846 - 282 pages
...pitying lamentation, " O that thon hadst known, in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ! How often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings ! " They who have turned from it, often look back as towards a friend whom they have renounced.... | |
 | Catharine Cecil - Christian biography - 1849 - 656 pages
...— " O Thou! whose bowels of compassion yearned over Jerusalem — as in that tender lamentation, ' How often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings' — let an afflicted, defenceless one, who ever in trouble flies to Thee, abide beneath... | |
 | 1871 - 688 pages
...warning cries, and one morning, as he stood looking at the city, he said, — " O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her ivings." The blessed Saviour, you see, is a refuge from harm. He is a sure refuge, an instant refuge,... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Church and education - 1850 - 814 pages
...apostrophe, " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, but ye would not." As the sower scatters his seed as he moves along, so the... | |
 | John Cumming - Miracles - 1852 - 660 pages
...them that are sent unto thee, [the language of indignant accusation ; but instantly followed up by,] how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not" — the language of tender and infinite compassion. Now here is the perfect... | |
 | Christian union - 1853 - 868 pages
...judgments upon impenitent sinners, what tenderness and pity marked His words! — " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." Would we have the mind of the Lord Jesus ? " Then let each esteem his... | |
 | John Cumming - 1855 - 258 pages
...Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered. thee"— read the 78th Psalm, read the 106th Psalm — " how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not. Behold, your house is left unto you desolate ; the kingdom of God is taken... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 396 pages
...them that are sent unto thee, [the language of indignant accusation ; but instantly followed up by] how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" — the language of tender and infinite compassion. Now here is the perfect... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 396 pages
...them that are sent unto thee, [the language of indignant accusation ; but instantly followed up by] how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not !" — the language of tender and infinite compassion. Now here is the... | |
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... how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 
