| James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 pages
...So justly have they been compared by the prophet Joel 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 sword with ten thousand edges,... | |
| Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1831 - 236 pages
...of the trees, and 'announcing their approach, at a considerable distance, by the noise of feeding. " The land is as the garden of 'Eden before them, and behind them a 'desolate wilderness." In order to give a new direction to their course, the 'inhabitants are accustomed... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 356 pages
...accurately described in the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " 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 sound of their wings is as the sound... | |
| Thomas Whittemore - Bible - 1832 - 390 pages
...which went up to destroy Jerusalem is thus described : "Afire 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." Jesus saw a pcculiar fitness therefore in... | |
| John Timbs - 1832 - 362 pages
...accurately described in the Bible. Thus, in Joel ii. 2, &c. " 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 sound of their wings is as the sound... | |
| Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 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... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...envied him. Ezek. xxxi. 8, 9. A fire devoureth before them, (the. " locusts") and behind them a name burneth. The land is as the garden of Eden before them : and behind them a desolate wilderness. Joel ii. 3. Kattward, &c.] So he (God) drove out the man : and he placed at the... | |
| James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 446 pages
...So justly have they been compared by the prophet Joel 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 sword with ten thousand edges,... | |
| 1832 - 548 pages
...where the insect has accordingly a proverbial reputation. " The land," says the Prophet Joel, •' is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness — yea, and nothing shall escape them." Again— " they shall run like mighty... | |
| Thaddeus Mason Harris - Bible - 1833 - 394 pages
...ARBEH leave, the JALEK devour; What the JALEK leave, the CHASIL devour. Before them a fire cuusumeth, And behind a flame burneth: The land is as the garden...they feed (says Ludolphus), their leavings seem as it were parched with tire65." Though the land before their coming shall appear beautiful for its verdure... | |
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