 I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.  Discourses on Personal Religion - Page 393by Samuel Stennett - 1769Full view - About this book
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out." There is one view more to be taken of the subject ; it is,... | |
 | Lucy Hake - Anecdotes - 1828 - 334 pages
...the fatherless, and him that had none to help him, and I caused the widow's heart to sing with joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame, I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.—The stranger did not lodge in the street; but I opened my... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 612 pages
...others : ' I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him : I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame : I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew not, I searched out.' Thus will the merciful man show his strict observance of the... | |
 | Joel Harvey Linsley - Conduct of life - 1828 - 192 pages
...blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. IF there is any thing consonant to the dignity of man's rational... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame; I was a father to the poor; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. " Did not I weep for him that was in trouble ? Was not my soul... | |
 | Isabella Graham, Joanna Bethune - Christian biography - 1828 - 318 pages
...perish, came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 1 was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause that I knew not, I searched out.' God allowed the weight of the trial to be upon his spirit,... | |
 | John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and...to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out."§ To such a delineation nothing can be added, without disfiguring... | |
 | John Angell James - Church group work - 1829 - 214 pages
...blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not, I searched out." Surely, surely, here is honour, much pure, legitimate, exalted... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame ; I was a father to the poor ; and the cause which I knew not I searched out. " Did not I weep for. him that was in trouble ? Was not my soul... | |
 | James Peggs - Hindu ethics - 1830 - 556 pages
...of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. — I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out." Job. xxix. 11 — 16. What a pattern this of the amiable religion... | |
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