 I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, And the glory of his high looks. For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, And by my wisdom ; for I am prudent...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3151894Full view - About this book
 | John Harris - 1836 - 352 pages
...covetousness infecting and pervading them all. Hear avarice speaking by the mouth of Nebuchadnezzar, " By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom I have robbed their treasures my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people ; and as N one... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1837 - 882 pages
...» punish the fruit T of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 i, there be no place. , R нотап., 33 And the h carcasses of this cir- anniim • Gen. 1. 20 ; Mic. iv. 12. »2 King« xviii. 24, 33, Ate. ; xix. 10, &c. p Amo» vi. 2. ч2 Chron.... | |
 | John Pring - 1837 - 424 pages
...beware of giving himself unto vanity, thinking, and looking too perhaps like the king of Assyria : " For he saith, by the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom " (Isai. x. 13). For, as leaving a house open, by night is offering a temptation for thieves to enter... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...which he had been employed to pull down. This reminds us of that Assyrian who is described as saying, "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by...: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures ; and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man. — Shall the... | |
 | 1838 - 950 pages
...himself thus concerning the conquest of Samaria, the capital of the kingdom of the ten tribes: — " By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by...: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man : and my hand hath... | |
 | 1838 - 786 pages
...I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom ; for I am prudent, &c. " Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1838 - 460 pages
...will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. " For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it; and by my •wisdom, for I am prudent. " Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1838 - 330 pages
...saith, I have removed the bounds of the people, and have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man. By the strength of my hand I have done it; and by my wisdom, for I am prudent. £hall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? Or shall the saw magnify itself against... | |
 | Thomas Butt - 1838 - 444 pages
...obtained by their own superior valour and discipline. Like the king of Assyria, each of them said, " By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom ; for I am prudent." It was however but the " boasting of the axe against him that heweth therewith." God in reality " sent... | |
 | Edward Bury - 1838 - 192 pages
...them, and their own wisdom and endeavours enriches them. They are like the king of Assyria, who said, " By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom ; for I am prudent," Isa. x. 13. But what had all my labour profited me, or what good would theirs have done them, if God... | |
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