let them feed in Bashan Gilead, as in the days of old. Zeph. ii, 9. Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God

of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breed

ing of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

Matth. xi, 7. And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with

the wind?

Matth. xv, 33. And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

Mark vi, 31, 32. And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. And

they departed into a desert place by ship privately.

Luke i, 80. And the child grew,

NOXIOUS VEGETATION.

Psalm lviii, 9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Prov. xxiv,31. And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

Eccles. vii. 6. For as the crackling of thorus under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Isaiah xxix. 17. Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall, be esteemed as a forest?

Isaiah xxxii, 13. Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

Isaiah xxxiii, 12. And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

13

Isaiah xxxiv, 13. And thorns shall come up in her palaces,nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof.

up,

Hosea ix, 6. For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

Hosea x, 8. The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

Micah vii, 4. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

Matth. vii, 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Heb. vi, 8. But that which bear

eth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.

Jer. xii, 4. How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

Hosea ii, 18. And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

Joel ii, 21, 22. Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring. for the tree bcareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Jonah iv, 11. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thouse persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Zech. xiv, 15. And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

Matth. vi. 26. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Matth. x, 29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

SUBJECTION TO MAN. Gen. i, 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them. Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Gen. ix, 2. 3. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall bo meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Judges xiv, 5, 6. Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and.

against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

Dan. iv, 12, 25. The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of thereof, and all flesh was fed of the heaven dwelt in the boughs it.

from men, and thy dwelling shall That they shall drive thee be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he

1 Sam. xvii, 34-37. And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came out of the flock: And I went out a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lica and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. David said moreover, The LORD that deliver-will." ed me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.

2 Sam. xxiii, 20. And Benaiah went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

which

Job xxviii, 7, 8. There is a path no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen. The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

Job xxxv, 11. Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Ps. viii, 6-9. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalm xxxii, 9. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

James ili, 7. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind.

WILD ANIMALS. Isa. xxxiv, 14. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow.

Jer. 1, 39. Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild

Marki, 13. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels

ministered unto him.

BEAR.

ITS FIERCENESS.

2 Kings ii, 24. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the

LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and are forty and two children of

them.

2 Sam. xvii, 8. For, said Hushal, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge withthe people.

Prov. xvii, 12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Lam. iii. 10. He was unto me as

a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

Hosea xiii, 8. I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I deyour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

BEHEMOTH OR HIPPOPOT

Ps. lxxx, 13. The boar out of the

beast of the field doth devour it.

CONEY.

ITS ABODE INACCESSIBLE.

Ps. civ, 18. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

Prov. xxx, 26. The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

DEER.

AGILE AND BEAUTIFUL.

Gen. xlix, 21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. Job xxxix, 1-4. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? Canst thou number the mouths that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and

return not unto them.

P3. xviii, 33. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

Ps. xxix, 9. The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.

Ps. xlii, 1. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Prov. v, 19. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Çant. ii, 17. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Cant. vii, 3. Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

Cant. viii, 14. Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the

mountains of spices.

Deut. xxili, 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Judges vii, 5. So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lon said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

1 Sam. xvii, 43. And the Philistine said untó David, Am I a dog. that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

1 Sam. xxiv, 14. After whom 13 the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

2 Sam. ill, 8. Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish

bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?

2 Sam. ix, 8. And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

2 Sam, xvi, 9. Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

1 Kin. xiv, 11. Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat.

1 Kin. xvi. 4. Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat.

1 Kin. xxi, 19, 23. And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou

killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, Saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

2 Kin. viii, 13. And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

Job xxx, 1. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Ps. xxii, 16. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

Ps. lix, 6. They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Ps. Ixviii, 23. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

Prov. xxvi, 11, 17. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

Prov. xxx, 31. A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

Eccles. ix, 4. For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Isa. Ivi, 10, 11. His watchman are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

Isa. Ixvi, 3. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck. *

Jer. xv, 3. And I will appoint over them for kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the

heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Matth. vii,6. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest

they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Matth. xv, 26, 27. But he answer

SMALL BUT CUNNING. Neh. iv, 3. Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

Ps. Ixiii, 10. They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

Lat. v, 18. Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Ezek. xii, 4. O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the

deserts.

ITS SPOTTED HIDE, AND SWIFT AND SUDDEN SPRING.

Çant. iv, 8. Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

Isa. xi, 6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Jer. xiii, 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Dan. vil, 6. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard,

which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl: the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Hosca xiii, 7. Therefore I will be unto them as a lion; as a leopard by the way will I observe them.

Hab. i, 8. Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.

Rev. xiii, 2. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

LION.

Judges xiv, 8. And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

1 Kings xiii, 24-26. And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase. And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt. And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said. It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath Celivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.

1 Kings xx, 36. Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

2 Kings xvii, 25, 26. And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manuer of the God of the land.

ITS BOLDNESS AND POWER. whelp: from the prey, my son, Gen. xlix, 9. Judah is a lion's thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

Num. xxiii, 24. Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Num. xxiv, 9. He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion; who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

Deut. xxxiii. 20. 22. And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

2 Sam. xvii, 10. And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.

1 Kings vii, 29, 36. And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

1 Kings x, 19, 20. The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays. And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

Job, iv, 10, 11. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are

scattered abroad.

P3. x, 9. He lieth in wait secret

ly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

P3. xvii, 12. Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

P3. lviii 6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth, break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.