Devotions for the daughters of Israel, tr. and adapted from a prayer-book in use throughout Germany, by M.H. Bresslau1853 |
Common terms and phrases
acceptable unto Thee according to Thy All-just all-kind Father All-merciful all-seeing eye allurements Amen ancestors art Thou beloved benevolence beseech Thee bestowed cheerfulness child CIRCUMCISION comfort confidence covenant Creator dark DAY OF ATONEMENT delight devotion earth earthly Egypt elevated eternal everlasting evermore evil exalt exclaim faith FEAST OF TABERNACLES fellow-creatures Festival forgive frankincense fulness gifts glory gracious grant HALLELUJAH hand happiness hast Thou hath heart heaven Heavenly Father Holy Temple hope HOUNDSDITCH hour humble Israel Israelite Jerusalem light live Lord mercy mind Moses mourning ness never pardon parents PASSOVER path peace perishable pious PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING precious psalmist rejoice remember render SABBATH sacrifice salvation sins slavery solemn song of praise sorrow soul spirit strengthen sublime thank Thee Thou hast Thou mayest Thou wilt Thy grace Thy law Thy love Thy Majesty Thy providence trust in Thee truth turbed virtue whilst Whoever wisdom yonder יי
Popular passages
Page 27 - What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good ? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good, seek peace, and pursue it.
Page 69 - Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Page 46 - Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
Page 23 - As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 48 - Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, as the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day : that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Page 7 - THUS saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest ? For all those things hath mine hand made, And all those things have been, saith the Lord: But to this man will I look, Even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, And trembleth at my word.
Page 33 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 49 - Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt...
Page 49 - Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Page 50 - And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the LORD their God.