 | Robert Mignan - 1829 - 378 pagina’s
...so heated by the sun's rays, (although the nights are cold,*) that I find it too hot * Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.— (Genesis xxxi. 40.) " In Europe the days and nights resemble each other, with respect to... | |
 | Robert Mignan - 1829 - 386 pagina’s
...so heated by the sun's rays, (although the nights are cold,*) that I find it too hot * Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me. and the frost by night ; and ray sleep departed from my eyes. — (Genesis xxxi. 40.) " In Europe the days and nights resemble each... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1830 - 304 pagina’s
...my affliction, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight. 40 Thus I was; in the day drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 pagina’s
...he becomes a servant, and that to an uncle who was the hardest of all masters. " Thus I was," said he, " in the day the drought consumed me, and the...frost by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes." "Was any thing torn of beasts? he bore the loss of it? Was it stolen by day or stolen by night? of... | |
 | John Davenant, Josiah Allport - 1831 - 642 pagina’s
...pastors of cattle undertake a laborious life, so that Jacob could truly say concerning the pastoral life, In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes, Gen. xxxi. 40, then how much more does it behove the pastors of souls, from whom God will require whatever... | |
 | John Davenant, Josiah Allport - 1831 - 656 pagina’s
...of cattle undertake a laborious life, so that Jacob could truly say concerning the pastoral life, Li the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes, Gen. xxxi. 40, then how much more does it behove the pastors of souls, from whom God will require whatever... | |
 | George Bush - 1831 - 484 pagina’s
...— ' Feed and keep ;' ie feed by day, and keep a guard by night. So he says afterward, Gen. 3.1. 41, 'In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night.' — 'The flock.' This is a general term, under which he goes on to specify the two species of animals... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1831 - 296 pagina’s
...customs of the East, as they throw so much light on Scripture !" CLIMATE. " NOTICE Gen. xxxi. 40. ' In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night.' This is the complaint of Jacob. With us, the days and nights bear a considerable resemblance to each... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pagina’s
...required to be watched by day and by night, under the open sky. Thus Jacob describes his service : — " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes." So also the shepherds were watching their flocks by night, when the angel of the Lord came down with... | |
 | 1832 - 440 pagina’s
...strong terms the occasional sufferings of the shepherd in the discharge of this part of his duty — " In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes*." WANT OF WATER. The occasional suffering from drought has been already hinted at. A traveller gives,... | |
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Thus I was ; in the day the -drought consumed me, and the frost by night ; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 
