...19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment ! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20 to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one shall despise their image. 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. 22 So foolish...

...reserved for the good: " Then," says he, " thought I to know " this, but it was too painful for me; until I went into the " sanctuary of God: then understood...set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down * Vide 1 Chron. " into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in " a moment! they are...

...slept their sleep, and they whose hands were mighty have found nothing." And again, Psalm Ixxiii. " As a dream when one awaketh ; so, O Lord, when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image." Thus also the prophet Isaiah, chap. xxix. " It shall be even as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,...

...coming upon them, being represented by their foot sliding. The same is expressed, Psalm Ixxiii. 18. " Surely thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou c.astedst them down into destruction." 2. It implies, that they were always exposed to sudden unexpected destruction. As he that walks in...

...down with tears." Pride is the eminence from which men more" usually plunge into the fatal abyss. " Surely thou didst set them in slippery places : thou castedst them down into destruction." An inordinate and unreasonable selfesteem excludes God from the heart. It is a spirit diametrically...

...wo.» too painful for me ; 17 Until I went into the sanct«ary of God ; then understood I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places : thou castedst them down into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment ! they are utterly consumed with terrors. 20...

...Rom. i. 25. The ungodly prosper in the world. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me : until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end. Ps.lxxiii. 12. 16, 17. For, behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth. Isaiah, Ixv. 17. Look for...

...offend against the generation of thy children. When 1 thought to know this, it was too painful for me ; until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood...when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. So foolish was I, and ignorant : I was as...

...and their tongue walketh through the earth, yet surely they are set in slippery places. God doth cast them down into destruction. How are they brought into...They are utterly consumed with terrors ; as a dream * from one that awaketh, so, 0 Lord, in awaking, (or raising up, that is, saith the Chaldee paraphrase,...

...and their tongue walketh through the earth, yet surely they are set in slippery places. God doth cast them down into destruction. How are they brought into...They are utterly consumed with terrors; as a dream* from one that awaketh, so, O Lord, in awaking, (or raising up, that is, saith the Chaldee paraphrase,...