 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?  The Monthly magazine - Page 376by Monthly literary register - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Francis Collins - Mediterranean Region - 1809 - 354 pages
...omnipotent and gracious Being, who, to use the sublimity of Scripture, " Gathered the winds in his fist, who *' hath measured the waters in the hollow " of his hand, and meted out heaven with " the span, and comprehended the dust of " the earth in a measure, and weighed the " mountains... | |
 | John Dick - Bible - 1811 - 302 pages
...fill our minds with astonishment and awe, than this representation of the greatness of Jehovah : " Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand ? and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains... | |
 | George Adams - Astronomy - 1812 - 586 pages
...consider the immensity of his power, who regulates and governs all these wide extended motions ; " who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span." It was a new star discovered by Hipparchus, the chief of the ancient astronomers,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...Creation. hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. Chap. xl. 12, 13. ' Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand ? and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains... | |
 | George Adams - Astronomy - 1812 - 552 pages
...consider the immensity of his power, who regulates and governs all these wide extended motions ; " who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span." It was a new star discovered by Hipparchus, the chief of the ancient astronomers,... | |
 | John Nichols - Authors, English - 1812 - 754 pages
...; for that is possible to Him alone who hath weighed the mountains in a scale, and measured Heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. " But, since your Majesty hath used all the precaution that human wisdom could well suggest,... | |
 | 1816 - 600 pages
...of the earth, by representing the Creator as often executing in detail his own Almighty decrees. " Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 468 pages
...with so much pomp. The prophet's notions of God are diffused through all the verses of the text. " Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted < ut heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of tile earth in a measure ? Who hath weighed the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...approaching to a true idea of the Infinite and Eternal ; who is above and unlimited by time and space ; " who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted oujf the heaven with a span, and taketh up the isles as a very little thing!" and in whose sight "... | |
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