 | Joseph John Gurney - 1838 - 106 pages
...which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go. 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." " I have surely," again it is said, " I have surely heard Ephraim... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1838 - 782 pages
...crying, " listen O Isles unto me, and barken ye people from afar," be applied : — " Oh that thou hailst hearkened to my commandments ! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea : thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy... | |
 | 1838 - 790 pages
...Christianity, and none but they can effect the blessings enumerated in these texts. " 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, thy seed also had been as the sand and the offspring of thy... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth (rector of Watton, Herts.) - 1838 - 604 pages
...ami beauty. Such is the view of the world. God's view is very different: O that thou hadst hearhened to my commandments; then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Christ's view of it is very different also. It was his meat... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1838 - 642 pages
...things, and freedom from calamitous circumstances of every kind. Isa. xlviii. 18, " O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments. Then had thy peace been as a river;" that is, then thy wealth and prosperity would have been very great and remarkable. This being a common... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1852 - 698 pages
...last Sabbath before his short and fatal illness, he preached with great power from " 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." 147 INDIANA CONFERENCE, Held in the Town of Bedford, la., October... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1973 - 508 pages
...revolution; their conviction, too, of the final emergence of a better state of things. '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.' [Isaiah 48:18] The world is always thinking that the 'peace... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 pages
...teacheth thee to profit, Which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. ISO that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then had thy peace been as a river, And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, And the offspring of... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way thai thou shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst e man of God answered. The LORD is able to give thee much more than this. righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of... | |
 | William L. Andrews - 1986 - 256 pages
...I went into the desk opened the meeting, and preached from Isaiah xlviii. 18, "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." The audience were very numerous and attentive; much feeling... | |
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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... 
