...pregnant with him, was very little better; for, as soon as she heard a voice from the throne, saying, " Sing, O heavens ! and be joyful, O earth ! and break...his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted," infidelity returned this answer by her mouth : " Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord...

...upon their shoulders. And Kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their Queens thy nursing mothers." " Sing, O heavens ; and be joyful, O earth ; and break...his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted." With us the past year has been peculiarly marked by afflictions of various kinds. Unprecedented depression...

...divine commiseration. " As a father pitieth his Children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." " Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should...womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." Nothing can manifest the deep impression which the divine perfections, and a conviction of his...

...and be glad in thee ; let such as love thee, say continually, the Lord be magnified. Isaih xlix IS. Sing O heavens, and be joyful O earth, and break forth...Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his afflicted. Ps. Let every thing that hatli breath praise the Lord. Meditations, confessions and...

...name, at a time and at an age that must appear marvellous in all men's eyes. Therefore they may say, " Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, and break...comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted."—For now I have tried the Gentiles, and 1 find them as blind as the Jews : , and, as to...

...divine commiseration. " As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." " Can a woman forget her suckling child, that she should...womb ? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." Nothing can manifest the deep impression which the divine perfections, and a conviction of his...

...to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, .... and to comfort all that mourn," Isa. Ixi. 1,2. " Sing, O heavens ; and be joyful, O earth, and break forth into singing, O mountains ; for the Lord haih comforted his people," Isa. xlix. 13. § .Lightfoot, in supxa. It were easy to prove, that these...

...Hear this ! listen to God Himself describing His own love and tenderness toward men, His creatures ! " But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? yea, they may forget, yet...

...come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim. 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break...his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. 15 Can a woman forget her...

...forgets not thee? Unkind ingratitude! When he speaks of his own kindness, hear what he says, Zionsaid, the Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, she may forget, yet...