 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...been ever the like, neither 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...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 pages
...' 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 pages
...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 - Astronomy in the Bible - 1827 - 454 pages
...for it is nigh at hand: a day of darkness and of gloominess ; a day of clouds and of thick darkness. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame...desolate wilderness. Yea, and nothing shall escape them ... Before their face the people shall be much pained; all faces shall gather blackness. They shall... | |
 | Christian literature - 1827 - 468 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame...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... | |
 | Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...clouds and of thick darkness ; as the morning spread upon the mountains, a great people and a strong : a fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame...desolate wilderness, yea, and nothing shall escape them." Locusts consume like a general conflagration ; 'wherever they feed, their leavings seem as it were... | |
 | Religion - 1828 - 580 pages
...ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE. JOEL, ii. 3 — 10. AJirt dtTmiretk before them; and behind them aflame burneth: the land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yta, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as... | |
 | Frederick William Beechey, Henry William Beechey - Africa, North - 1828 - 696 pages
...doubt, were fond of eating them ; in so Joel (ii. 3,) to a great army ; who further observes, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Having lived near a month in this manner, like a /xi<gio<jToptov |i^or-*, or sword with ten thousand... | |
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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. 
