 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1833 - 572 pages
...way that thou ehouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea :" xlviii, 17, 18. It was the complaint of Jesus against the Jews, that although John the Baptist came... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1834 - 330 pages
...Israel had walked in my ways! O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments? then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.'' — But may not God abandon those who have renounced him? Is he compelled to force his favours upon... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1834 - 384 pages
...xlviii. 18. Thus saith the Lord, O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Jer. vi. 16. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old |»ths, where is... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1835 - 568 pages
...Lord, thy Redeemer ;— -O that thoa hadst hearkened unto my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea, Isa. xlviii. 17, 18.— My righteousness shall answer fur me [Jacob] in time to come. Gen. xxx. 33.— Noah was... | |
 | Henry Martin - Society of Friends - 1835 - 240 pages
...recorded in Isaiah, "Oh! that thou hadst hearkened unto my commandments, then had thy peace flowed as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Does not the Apostle declare, " where there is no law, there is no transgression f" What can be clearer... | |
 | Young women - 1835 - 330 pages
...transgressor from the womb. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ; then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.' The prayer of David was, ' Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law ; yea, I shall observe it... | |
 | Edward William Clarke - 1835 - 288 pages
...way that thou shouldest go O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy PEACE BEEN AS A RIVER, and thy righteousness as the WAVES OF THE SEA." " Awake, put on thy strength." " Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...way that thou shouldst go. 0 that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea!' All the privation of happiness men now sustain,— all the positive suffering they endure, — all... | |
 | Daniel Atkinson Clark - 1836 - 342 pages
...pours out lamentation, " Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Depend upon it, brethren, that is a great calamity which can awaken such sympathy and create such regret... | |
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O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea... 
