| 1838 - 492 pages
...place to be for ever uninhabited, a dwelling of wild beasts, and aplace of stagnant waters. PROPHECY. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of...shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell... | |
| John Dick - 1838 - 564 pages
...place for fishers to dry their nets on.' " The fate of Babylon was foretold in the following words. " And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of...shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell... | |
| Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...ascertain exactly the spot on which it stood; so completely has been fulfilled the prediction of Isaiah: " Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the...shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall be there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures, and owls shall dwell there,... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 pages
...day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate.—Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'...shepherds make their fold there: but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1838 - 696 pages
...square. Roberts't Jitdah Restored. The wandering Arab never sets his tent Within her walls, £c P. 184. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of...neither shall the Shepherds make their fold there. — Isaiah, xiii. 19, 20. treasures, is well known: it is difficult, or even dangerous, for a traveller... | |
| 1841 - 682 pages
...opulent, followed; and streets were singularly abandoned to unbroken silence. , "Isaiah, Chapter 13.—'It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt...shepherds make their fold there; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there,... | |
| Elizabeth Rice Handford - 1971 - 116 pages
...were ruins, ruins, broken heaps of brick and rubble. The words of the prophet Isaiah had come true: "And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of...shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there... | |
| Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall A burden about Palestina Blessed are ye that sow 21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures;... | |
| Russell R. Standish, Colin D. Standish - 1999 - 216 pages
...to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of...shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall be there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there,... | |
| Merrill C. Tenney - 1988 - 228 pages
...in the prophecy of Isaiah: And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah....shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their... | |
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