They mount up to the heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits The British Essayists: Spectator - Side 68redigert av - 1823Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Jonathan Mayhew - 1763 - 378 sider
...up to the heavens, they go down to the depths ; their foul is melted becaufe of trouble — and they are at their wit's end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble." — There are fometimes iilfb dorms, tempefts and perils by land, as well as on the leas,... | |
| John Philips - 1791 - 214 sider
...are carried up to the heavens and down again to the deep : their " foul melteth away becaufe of the trouble. " THEY REEL TO AND FRO, AND STAGGER LIKE A DRUNKEN " MAN: and are at their wits end." 231. ————— Meanwhile the loofen'd 'winds, Infuriate, molten rocks and flaming... | |
| Thomas Case - 1802 - 184 sider
...billows and surges of the tempestuous sea ! They mount up to heaven, they go down again to the depth ; their soul is melted because of trouble : they reel...fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. And 'partly, God teacheth the necessity of a life of faith by the disappointment of the creature... | |
| 1803 - 408 sider
...thereof: they mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths, their soul is melted because oi' trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sider
...great waters : these men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waters...fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 504 sider
...wind, which lifteth up the waves 26 thereof. They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to 27 the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble....fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their 28 wit's end. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and 29 he bringeth them out of their distresses.... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1805 - 430 sider
...a passage in the Psalms, from whence one must be almost certain he must .have borrowed this image " They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end." Psalm 107; verse 27. Here, not only the simile is the same, and the expression almost so — as near... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 sider
...lifteth up the waves thereof. They are carried up to the heaven, and down again to the because of the trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man ; and are at their wits' end. So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 318 sider
...the depths, their soul is melted because ot trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a linmken man, and are at their wit's end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeih them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 sider
...in great waters: these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. For He commanded! and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waters...fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits, end. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He bringeth them out of their distresses.... | |
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