...I clothe the heavens with blackness ; and t make sackcloth their covering.' — Then follows (ver. 6. ) ' I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting.' Thus should we consider every circumstance of...

...understood by Wells and others, of those who have suffered persecution for Christ's cake. the vith verse, I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting. When we consider the particulars of Christ's...

...Jehovah hath opened mine " ear, and I was not rebellious; neither did I with" draw myself backward. I gave my back to the " smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off " the hair : my face I hid not from shame and spit" ting. For the Lord Jehovah is my helper ; there^*...

...xii. 18. xxv. 18. xxx. 14. Eph. ?i. 17. Heb. iv. 12. Rev. i. 16. ii. 16. xix. 15, 21. No. 1082. — 1. 6. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair, I hid not my face from shame and spitting ] Mr. Hanway has recorded a scene differing little,...

...the lowest. To pluck a man's beard in the East is the highest mark of insult which can be shewn. " I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair." Isaiah, clv 6. A fine trived this, which to me seems a most improbable 1°7 part of the...

...so. noble a captain, who hath gone before me with so undaunted a spirit, that he saith of himself, ' I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair/ The Lord God will help me; therefore, I shall not be confounded. Shall I be ashamed of a...

...with blackness, and I made sackcloth their covering, when I found myself despised and rejected of men; I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting. " Thus as MAN I bore all the reproach of man;...

...the learned. 5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. 6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame and spitting. 7 For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall...

...(oW™ mm) The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. Ver. 6. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." In the forty-second chapter of the same book,...

...forsaken me?" The prophet Isaiah represents the ignominy and torments of his passion, Isa. chap. 52. 53. " I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting:" and by the eyes of his mind saw him crucified...