| Richard Cecil - 1847 - 336 pages
...God of all comfort,' (2 Cor. i. 3,) speaks as distinctly in the death as in the birth of an infant. A ' voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping: Rachel, weeping for her children, refused to be comforted, because they were not. Thus saith the Lord, Refrain thy voice from weeping,... | |
| Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...let thy widows trust in me." On the other side of the gateway are engraved the following verses : " A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping : Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." " Thus saith the Lord, Refrain thy... | |
| George Peck - Methodism - 1848 - 498 pages
...and that had fallen upon the innocent children of Bethlehem, had been predicted, Jer. xsxi, 15 : " A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." Matt, ii, 18. He taught the disciples... | |
| Alexander Ellis Pearce - 1848 - 70 pages
...of the children of Bethlehem by the merciless decree of the jealous and impious Herod, " Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for herchildren, because they were not. Thus... | |
| Christmas poetry - 1849 - 250 pages
...Thy felf to me, Or take me up to Thee ! George Herbert. 3lnfancp of our 3tor&. (Tbe Innocents' Day.) Thus faith the Lord ; A voice was heard in Ramah,...Rachel weeping for her children Refufed to be comforted for her children, Becaufe they were not. Thus faith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice from weeping, And... | |
| Sara Coleridge - 1849 - 240 pages
...Thy felf to me, Or take me up to Thee ! George Herbert. 1 5o 3)nfancp of our (The Innocents' Day.) Thus faith the Lord ; A voice was heard in Ramah,...and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children Refilled to be comforted for her children, Becaufe they were not. Thus faith the Lord ; Refrain thy... | |
| 1849 - 632 pages
...the Spirit contrasts with it their past experience, when they were led into captivity: " Thus saith the Lord, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation...bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." Rachel, we must bear in mind, was... | |
| 1849 - 636 pages
...God's temple as the high places of the forest;" or when, according to another symbolical prophecy, "A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping : Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not." It was very remarkable, that the... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1850 - 466 pages
...I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications," Dan. ix. 3. — " Thus saith the Lord, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation,...and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not," Jer. xxxi. 15 — followed up by... | |
| Christian literature, American - 1850 - 364 pages
...a large and constantly increasing parish. wi K. WMTJRM NEW YORX. For the Evergreen. THE DEPARTED. " A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, — because they were not." WHERE rest the spirits of the blest, When freed from mortal clay ? Where... | |
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