 | Joseph Townsend - 1791 - 388 pages
...even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | 1848 - 726 pages
...wastes away. Fruit is nipped off by the stems which bear it, and falls immediately to the ground. " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." When a flight is seen approaching, the farmer attempts to prevent its alighting on his grounds by kindling... | |
 | 1806 - 500 pages
...she laid her young; so should I find thine altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God." JOEL ii. 3. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and...behind them a desolate wilderness} yea, and nothing shalt escape them. This, and much more in the same prophecy, is a won-' derfully exact description... | |
 | Louis de MAROLLES, John Martin - 1803 - 248 pages
...reaches, there is nothing but desolation. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and...desolate wilderness: yea, and nothing shall escape them. What are become of so many churches founded by the apostles, so flourishing in their age, and since?... | |
 | 1803 - 512 pages
...vapours travel on the wings of the wind, when the Lord of health and life gives them the commiffion. " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolatewildernefs; yea, and nothing fhallefcape them." Nor Itkat scodoes the furious florm difplay... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...devastation which the locusts should 3 make. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land . [is] as the garden of Eden before them,...desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them ; they shall devour every thing BO tuitkly 4 and entirely, (hat one would think afire had done itt... | |
 | 1805 - 570 pages
...referred us to the third verse of the second chapter of Joel, from which the images are translated : * The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a ilesolate wilderness.' Mr. Wrangham now laments the state of degradation to which Hindostán was reduced... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1806 - 340 pages
...ARMY OF LOCUSTS. Jotl zd Chap. 18. ...A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs ; yea, and nothing (hall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...the years of many generations. 3 A fire ifevoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and...desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. 4 The .appearance of them is as the appearance of horses ; and as horsemen, so shall they run. 5 Like... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 592 pages
...to the years of many general ions.f A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burnelh : the land is as the. garden of Eden before them, and...desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them — Before their faces the people shall be much pained : all faces shall gather blackness — They... | |
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A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness: Yea, and nothing shall escape them. 
