| William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...the ground with foliage. When a leaf falls it drops irrecoverably. It is otherwise with the tree : " there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet, through... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...mouldering urn, Ah ! when shall day dawn on the night ot the grave ?" " There is hope," said he, " of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pages
...foliage, which by revolving seasons is produced and destroyed. But in this the illustration fails : " for there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet, through... | |
| Village pastor - Consolation - 1832 - 226 pages
...protection ; but the ashes of the dead revive not with the dews, and showers, and influences of spring. There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through... | |
| A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not. There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet, through... | |
| Ebenezer Kellogg - Christian biography - 1832 - 128 pages
...Losing sight of the promises of Jehovah, he lets his eye wander on nature. " There is hope," says he, " of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet, through... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...he cannot pass. 4 Turn from him that he may rest, till he shall accomplish as an hireling his day. 5 For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 6 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground: 7 Yet through... | |
| William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 330 pages
...cover the ground with leaves. When a leaf falls, it drops irrecoverably. It isotherwise with the tree: "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through... | |
| Albert Barnes - Bible - 1834 - 344 pages
...shall retain life, and which shall send up a sprout of a similar kind. So Job says (ch. xiv. 7), и For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease." So in relation to Jesse. Though IIP should fall, like an aged tree, yet his name and family should... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1837 - 428 pages
...: He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease: Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet, through... | |
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