 | 1828 - 852 pages
...instructed him ; he kept him as the apple of liis eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings ; so the Lord above did lead him, anj thert was ho strange God with him." Therefore, adds he, with reference to those... | |
 | 1828 - 852 pages
...instructed him ; he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings ; so the Lord above did lead him, and there was no strange God with him." Therefore, adds he, with reference to those... | |
 | Selina Martin - 1828 - 418 pages
...he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an. eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead him." And so he leads his children ; so he watches over them in his pity and his love. When poor, and blind,... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad ha wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; 12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him. 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields ;... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 538 pages
...part of this book, the reference is to a parent bird: "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh...them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead him." Here the allusion is to a human parent ; and it is worthy of remark, how often the allusion is made... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1829 - 414 pages
...Gibbon's "Address," &c. J)2 THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK. " As the eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh...beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead thee, and there was no strange God in thee"—DEUTERONOMY, xxxii. 11, 12. THE Persian poet, Meskin... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1829 - 72 pages
...Lord leads us from this towards a better resting-place, as an eagle stirretli up her nest, Jluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings. (Deut. xxxii. 11.) Jn this state it became necessary to make us feel, that the present world was not... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pages
...lead him, and there was no strange god with him." How ? " As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings." All this is not to be confined to the Jews — There is also a spiritual Israel, whom they were intended... | |
 | William Lowfield Fancourt - 1830 - 554 pages
...instructed him ; he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh...lead him, and there was no strange God with him." • Such was the providential care with which the Almighty had guarded his chosen race, and which their... | |
 | 1831 - 524 pages
...his people into the ark of their strength, says, " As an eagle stirreth up her nest and fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh...beareth them on her wings ; so the Lord alone did lead them. " The quickness and certainty with which the eagle darts upon its prey, is an apt symbol of the... | |
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Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth... 
