 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 488 trang
...inhabitants trembling — a fire devouring before the enemy, and behind them a flame burning — the land, as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness — all hands fainting, and every man's heart melting : pangs taking hold of them as a woman that travaileth... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 trang
...shall be any more after it, even to the years f of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the...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 lake... | |
 | Robert Culbertson - 1826 - 584 trang
...' They march every one in his ways, they do not break their ranks; neither does one thrust another. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness,' Joel ii. 3, 7, 8. And certainly no plague of locusts can be so destructive as one that issues from... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 trang
...burning, Trist. HI. El. x. 55, &c. DUNSTER. Ver. 78. who leave behind Nothing but ruin] Thus, Joel, ii. 3. "The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." And Gray, in his Bard, has a similar description finely expressed, where he speaks of the conquests... | |
 | Temple Chevallier - 1827 - 454 trang
...of darkness and of gloominess ; a day of clouds and of thick darkness. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: The land is as the...desolate wilderness. Yea, and nothing shall escape them ... Before their face the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness. They shall... | |
 | 1827 - 468 trang
...irresistible, never took the field. " A fire devoured before them, and behind a flame burned. The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing escaped them." Prodigies of valour could avail nothing in the face of an enemy, whose losses in leaders... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1824 - 604 trang
...Scripture. JOEL, ii. 3—10. A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame bnrneth : the land i« as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wildernett: yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is aa the appearance of horses... | |
 | Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 trang
...the morning spread upon the mountains, a great people and a strong : a fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth ; the land is as the...desolate wilderness, yea, and nothing shall escape them." Locusts consume like a general conflagration ; 'wherever they feed, their leavings seem as it were... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 trang
...shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the...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 - 1828 - 484 trang
...breastplates are like breastplates of iron : they have the tails of scorpions, armed with deadly stings : and the sound of their wings is as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle '. Our best commentators are agreed, with very general unanimity, in the leading proposition, that... | |
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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. 
