Treasury of Scripture I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God. I am Psalm 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Psalm 13:1-3 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of Dav...
We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. / Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. Treasury of Scripture You hold my eyes waking: I am...
So intense, in fact, that he says he despaired of life itself. Yet, amidst these troubles he says that he learned not to rely on his own personal resources, but to rely on “the God of all comfort.” He also shares that the experience of divine comfort amidst life’s troubles had ...
in itself, running away from his master, to the greatest good, even the conversion of him; and is an instance of surprising grace: and from hence may be learned, that there is salvation in Christ for the chief of sinners; and that the conversion of them is not to be despaired of. Th...
8We do not want you to be uninformed,brothers and sisters,[a]about the troubles we experiencedin the province of Asia.We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself.9Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this ...
20 So I turned these thoughts over in my mind and despaired over how hard I worked under the sun. 21 Although someone with wisdom, knowledge, and skill works hard, when he departs this life, he will leave all he has accomplished to another who has done nothing to deserve work’s rewa...
I despaired of trying to tell Barnett what his talk of Kentucky folk became in Tolkien’s imagination. I urged him to read The Lord of the Rings but as our paths have never crossed again, I don’t know that he did. Nor if he knew that he created by an Oxford fire and in walks ...
to broad general principles, to universal truths, to glimpses of the order and harmony and infinity of the Divine system, and thus to a deep, enlightened veneration of the Infinite Father. Do not be startled, as if I were holding out an elevation of mind utterly to be despaired of; for...
. . . All the people, as I say, looked the part—the kind of things despaired of by the movies. I never knew whether Gilbert and Sullivan copied England or England copied Gilbert and Sullivan. . . . A MILLION MARCHING FEET . . . I am afraid that would be a large order for ...
Indeed, if his brothers had not been guilty of wrongdoing, Joseph would have given no bad report to his father. Finally, look at verse 4 in this scripture passage. 4 His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to...