Sophia de Lissau: A Portraiture of the Jews, of the Nineteenth Century, Being an Outline of Their Religious and Domestic Habits, with Explnatory NotesT. Gardiner, 1840 - 293 pages |
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Page 113 - Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Page 159 - THE preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Page 41 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children : That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 4 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Page 199 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 159 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 103 - Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God .of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Page 252 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 121 - And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.