| Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1833 - 394 pages
...* Burchell's Travels, vol. ip, 418 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 desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| George Rapall Noyes - 1833 - 306 pages
...shall not be, Even to the years of many generations, a 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, nothing escapeth them. 4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses,... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...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 garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. « 4 The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1833 - 384 pages
...foliage. So justly have they been compared by the prophet to a great army ; who further observes, that the land is as the garden of Eden before, them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." Mr. Morier says, " On the llth of June, while seated in our tents about noon,... | |
| Andrew Crichton - 1833 - 476 pages
...feast on the slain. — Travek, vol. ii. p. 148. their ravages as that of the Prophet Joel : — " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness."* Africa, Egypt, Persia, and the whole of Asia, are subject to their visitations.... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1902 - 378 pages
...results where all vegetation is concerned. Only too true are the words of the prophet in Scripture, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." In fact, when the swarm has taken its flight elsewhere, the country appears as... | |
| 1915 - 876 pages
...leaves of the woody cypress and of the olive trees, the latter about i ,000 years old. were threatened. "The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness : yea, and nothing shall escape them" (Joel 2: 3). But now, after passing up this... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1878 - 670 pages
...freshness and beauty of the gardens on the day before, the words of Joel seemed hardly inappropriate : ' The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.' [ii. 3.] All vegetation also and all the doors and window-ledges of the houses... | |
| John F. Gregorek - 2000 - 410 pages
...after them, even to the years of many generations. 3 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 none hath escaped them. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the... | |
| Thomas C. Nixon - 2002 - 390 pages
...even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame bunieth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness, yea and nothing (no person) shall escape them. Their appearance is like the appearance... | |
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