...pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth "waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth " devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O God of " hosts, look down from heaven, and behold, and "visit this vine." In this Allegory was finely depictured the then-unhappy state of the Jews contrasted with their former...

...the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. Return, we beseech thce, О God of hosts ; look down from heaven, and behold,...right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. It is burned with fire, it is cut down ; they perish at the rebuke of thy...

...14 Return, we bcfeechthee.OGod of hofts: look down ir, m heaven, and behold, and viilt this vine; ij And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch tbat thou raadeft llrong tor thyfclf. 16 // is burnt with fire, it is cut down : they periih at the...

...pluck her ? The boar outof the woods doth waste her, and the wild beast of the field doth devour her. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts look down....which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch thou madest strong for thyself." The main thing to be regarded, in the manage- (-402-| ment of an allegory,...

...Lexicon, under the roots PTP3 and PirjP. This verse, with the two preceding, should be thus rendered : Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts, Look down from heaven and behold, And visit this vine ; Even the plant, which thine own right hand planted, Burnt with fire like refuse. At the rebuke of...

...Lexicon, under the roots rtDD and nnD. This verse, with the two preceding, should be thus rendered : Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts, Look down from heaven and behold, And visit this vine ; Even the plant, which thine own right hand planted, Burnt with fire like refuse. At the rebuke of...

...her? 13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou niadest strong for...

...when he has indulged for some time, how elegantly does he revert to his proper subject ! « Return, O God of Hosts ! " Look down from heaven, and behold, " And visit this vine : " And the branch which thy right hand hath planted ; « And the offspring*1 which thou madest strong for thyself....

...heaven, and bless thy people Israel, &c." Deut. xxvi. 15. So the Psalmist; " Return we beseech thee, О God of Hosts ; Look down from heaven, and behold and visit this vine, &c." Ps. Ixxx. 14. Isaiah also, " Look down from heaven, and behold the habitation of thy holiness...

...of the field from devouring it:" —if it decay through neglect, if it droop through inattention, " return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts, " look down from Heaven, behold and visit this " vinel" You will allow me, if you are, indeed, solicitous to reform the lives,...