 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1848 - 700 sider
...Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I fled ; for I knew Thou wert a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil<i." He told beforehand what the event would be, and he had reason to know it; God proclaimed it... | |
 | Catharine Irene Finch - 1854 - 494 sider
...country ? Therefore I fled unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, and slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, 0 LORD, take I beseech thee, my life from me : for it is better for me to die than to... | |
 | Edward A. Monro - 1855 - 470 sider
...Jonah. " Therefore I fled unto Tarshish, for I knew that Thou art a gracious GOD, and merciful, and slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil." Here, then, we find the prophet's motive for refusing was the distrust of GOD keeping His word ; a... | |
 | 1855 - 614 sider
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish : for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, 0 Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than... | |
 | Robert Ferguson - 1855 - 120 sider
...character. Hear how unguardedly he speaks — " therefore I fled before unto Tarshish ; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil ! " How does he glorify that very mercy which he means to blame ! What a lovely picture does he give... | |
 | Thomas Cobbet - 1856 - 446 sider
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country ? therefore I fled before unto Tarshish, for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." Or if a private man should be followed in prayer with Scriptures, urging him (as he thinks) to cast... | |
 | Daniel Dana Buck - 1856 - 328 sider
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish ; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." Indeed, such is the influence of MERCY in the Divine government, that it is probable that she has made... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1856 - 790 sider
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country ? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish : for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, 0 Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me ; for it is better for me to die than... | |
 | William Taylor - 1856 - 414 sider
...successfully, and ihe people should repent, thou wilt not bring upon them the judgments of thy word. "For thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger,...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil." So the people will call me a lying impostor, and perhaps take away my life ; and then relapse into... | |
 | Philip Charles Soulbieu DESPREZ - 1857 - 158 sider
...when penitent." If this be so, and the saying of Jonah while he was yet in his own country, " I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil," appears to confirm it, then how exquisite an illustration is this mercy shown to the Ninevites of the... | |
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Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 
