...in safety and security, " kept by the power of God." — '' Though the house of Israel be sifted as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." 2. Again, by these afflictions the God of grace intended the benefit of Job. His heavenly Father purposed...

...the stumblingblock of their iniquity.** I will sift the house of Israel among the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family,...

...Amos ix. 9. For lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. — Job v. 6, 7. 17, 18. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring...

...the LORD. 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will "sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least "grain fall upon the earth. 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor...

...that remnant: Far, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain thereof fall to the earth. There is an allusion here to a husbandman, who, when he sifts his corn in...

...be broken, and the prophecy fulfilled, " I will sift the house of Israel among all nations like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." " Blindness," saith the Apostle, " in part hath happened unto Israel, till the fulness of the Gentiles...

...A similar metaphor occurs, Amos ix. 9 : I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve ; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. But it was not so with the Apostles : one of them would be lost. The declaration, therefore, accords...

...See Amos. ix. 9, where the Lord says : " I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." 2 Matt. xxvi. 56. 3 Trtpi <roO. victim of Satan's malice. This seeming difficulty is removed, if our...

...the Lord; for, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." 23. These predictions have been literally fulfilled. The oppressors of the Jews,—the Egyptians, the...

...care which the Almighty takes of his people, it is promised, " I will sift the house of Israel like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth," Amos ix. 9. In the parable of the tares the direction is given, " Gather the wheat into my barn ; "...