 | Richard Allestree - 1667 - 464 pagina’s
...Joys of more, this confequence ofhoftility we find well ex f re ft by the Prophet Joel 2. 3 . The land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs, and herein alfo hath the Lord ofllofts, the great God of battle /hewed himfelf... | |
 | William Wake - 1716 - 394 pagina’s
...Jhall be any more after it. * 3> A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burneth : The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them^ and behind them a defolate Wildernefs. The Earth Jbatl quake before them ; the Heavens {ball tremble j the Sun and the... | |
 | Michel de La Roche - 1726 - 500 pagina’s
...tie herbs of the field, as Mofes fpeaks concerning the locufts in Egypt, Exod. x. 15. Ibid, fbe land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a deflate wildeniejs'} The Land of J-udea, fo famous for its fertility and pleafantnefs before this calamity,... | |
 | James Hervey - 1755 - 486 pagina’s
...fmgle Stalk in the Furrows. A Fire devoured before them, and behind them a Flame burneth : the Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate Wildernefe : yea, and nothing can efcape them *. Now, let the dreadful Artillery roar from... | |
 | Thomas Shaw - 1757 - 590 pagina’s
...they been compared by the prophet Joel, ii. 3. to a great army ; who further obferves, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate nvildernefs. Having lived near a month in this manner, (like a ftopofopev £t<po; ', orjword... | |
 | William Warburton - 1765 - 482 pagina’s
...been ever the like — A fire de" voureth before them, and behind them a flame "• burneth : The land is as the garden of .Eden " before them, and behind them a deiblate wil'* dernefs, yea, and nothing fhall efcape them. ** The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
 | Noël Antoine Pluche - 1766 - 392 pagina’s
...declares with relation to a victorious People, whom God in his Wrath caufed to march forth : * The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dejolate Wildertufs. The Country was a verdant Paradife before their Approach, but was rendered a dreary... | |
 | Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pagina’s
...plenty f." The defcription of the Invasion Qf this terrible army is renewed in chap. ii. 3,. " The land is as * the garden .of Eden before them, and behind .-, * them a defolate wildernefs, yea, «• mail efcape theiij." VT « X2 N° •f Npc foium jrorfu, fegetibus,... | |
 | Joseph Townsend - 1781 - 342 pagina’s
...by the face of the country. We may fay of defpo'ts, as the prophet does of the locufts, " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a dcfolate wildernefs * ". •' •Joelii. 3. CHAP. IX. ON POPULATION. 5 I.TH HE ftrength and profperity... | |
 | Joseph Townsend - 1791 - 396 pagina’s
...years of 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 defolate wildernefs, yea, and nothing mall efcape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance... | |
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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. 
