 | Samuel Richardson - 1820 - 432 pages
...heart is smitten and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones .cleave. to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I am like nn owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop.... | |
 | 1823 - 486 pages
...heart is smitten, and withered like grass, so that 1 forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican in the wilderness : 1 watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top." I trust I do feel the importance... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 578 pages
...mournful hootings of those solitary birds, which disturb the lonely desert. " By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin ; I am like a pelican of the wilderness ; I am like an owl of the desert." He then proceeds with his comparison : " I watch,... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 602 pages
...heart is smitten and withered like grass; so that 1 forget to eat my bread. -By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop.... | |
 | John Barber - 1828 - 310 pages
...is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By the reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1837 - 408 pages
...heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness ; I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top.... | |
 | 1829 - 516 pages
...distress, and that David compares himself to it on account of his moaning.4- " By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness : I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am like a lonely bird on the house... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - 1842 - 418 pages
...to resemble that of a man in deep complaint. David speaks of it thus : " By reason of my groanings my bones cleave to my skin ; I am like a pelican in the wilderness." — Psa. cii. 6. PEACH SEEDS. — A gentleman having given a quantity of peaches to some... | |
 | John Hooper - 1844 - 524 pages
...heart is smitten and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican in the wilderness ; I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top.... | |
 | John Owen - 1851 - 530 pages
...heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top.... | |
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My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 
