Thorns also and thistles shall it" ('the ground) "bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herb of the field." In the great majority of the other passages (10 out of 13) but a single act of eating is denoted, and in two of the remaining three (vv. 14... English derived from Hebrew - Page 14by Robert Govett - 1869Full view - About this book
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...ffoah, and 1 Chron. i. 4 — 28 for Adam's line to Noah, and so to Abraham). 20 An husbandman, &c.] Thorns also and thistles shall it (the ground) bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herh of the field ; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return... | |
| Henrietta Keddie - 1881 - 314 pages
...and that it is a very curse in agriculture — an instrument in the fulfilment of the old punishment "thorns also and thistles shall it [the ground] bring forth to thee." A half-pathetic, half-humorous story is told of an old Scotchman called Sandy Mackay who was settled... | |
| William Henry Poole - Anglo-Israelism - 1889 - 704 pages
...repeated in nearly the same sound through most languages. Whence comes its name? From the Hebrew rozah, to give pleasure, beautiful. In Eden God threatened...forth to thee ; " and the words used are in Hebrew HooZ and DaRDar. Do not these words reproduce themselves as cou^h and dodder? Couch-grass is a weed... | |
| Alessandro Manzoni - Hymns, English - 1904 - 278 pages
...stumps of oaks, amomum, And the earth was showered with flowers." — Hhe thistle flees. [Gen. iii, 18]: "Thorns also and thistles shall it [the ground] bring forth to thee." Compare Cowper in The Task [book vi, line 745, et seq.}: " Sweet is the harp of prophecy ; . . . O... | |
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