 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.  The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis - Page 106by Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton, Henry William Tytler, John Hookham Frere - 1856 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 984 pages
...truth, " A man," says he, " shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place ; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." Oh, but this is figurative language. True ; but what of that ? Is it the less intelligible,... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - Bible - 1833 - 306 pages
...Every one of them shall be a hiding-place from the wind, And a covert from the tempest ; As streams of water in a dry place, As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, s The eyes of them that can see shall no more be blind, And the ears of them that... | |
 | Stephen Kay - Indigenous peoples - 1834 - 468 pages
...search of the cooling shade. To any one thus circumstanced, the figurative language of the prophets, " Rivers of water in a dry place" — "As the shadow of a great rock in a weary land," &c., — is more than ordinarily beautiful. Having made our meal of a crust of bread... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1834 - 618 pages
...thus speaks, " A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest : as ensued, falls not within the design of the in a weary land."f In whom " it has pleased the Father that all fulness should dwell ;" of whom " the... | |
 | Christian life - 1847 - 600 pages
...Isa. xxxii. 1. And a man shall be as an hidingplace from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Isa. xxxii. «s. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the neeay... | |
 | John Fry - 1835 - 508 pages
...in judgment. And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest : as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." The restored Israel will be the centre of this blessedness, but all the survivors... | |
 | Christian life - 1835 - 480 pages
...NO. XVIII. " And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of •water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land."— Isaiah xxxii. 2. THE evangelical prophet, in this sublime passage, has beautifully... | |
 | B. C. Southam - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...Christ's kingdom: 'And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.' Frazer also mentions rocks, one of them called Red Altar, figuring as rain-charms.... | |
 | Hussein N. Kadhim - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 305 pages
...Christ's Kingdom: "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." (Isaiah 32: 2) : ' 3 Al-Sayyab's use of the shadow motif appears, however, to aim... | |
 | Michael O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 484 pages
...in 1850. 12. "And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land" (Isaiah 32:2). 13. Possibly Caroline L. Sessions Maury, who married John M. Maury... | |
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