 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.  Alfred the great - Page 83by Thomas Hughes - 1869Full view - About this book
 | 1806 - 500 pages
...young; so should I find thine altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God." JOEL ii. 3. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness} yea, and nothing shalt escape them. This, and much more in the same prophecy, is a won-' derfully exact... | |
 | Andrew Lee - 1803 - 422 pages
...carried terror and deflruction — *' A §re devoured before them, and behind them a flame burned : The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a defolate wildernefs; and nothing efcaped them."* The Hioft. populous and fruitful parts of that vaft... | |
 | Louis de MAROLLES, John Martin - 1803 - 248 pages
...nothing but desolation. 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. What are become of so many churches founded by the apostles, so... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...locusts should 3 make. 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 ; they shall devour every thing BO tuitkly 4 and entirely, (hat... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...of many generations. 3 A fire ifevoureth 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 of horses ; and... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 pages
...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 desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them — Before their faces the people shall be much pained : all faces... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...generations. II. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a jtame burneth : the land is a* the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them, In the forepart of their troops, they devour all before them,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1809 - 412 pages
...caterpiller eaten — 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 ravages of a hostile army, sometimes advancing in one great... | |
 | William Newcome - 1809 - 418 pages
...of || many generations. » 3 Before them a fire devoured), And behind a flame burnetb : The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them a * desolate wilderness: Yea, and nothing f shall escape them. |j Hcbr. ot generation and generjlion. * a wilderness of desolation,... | |
 | James Macknight - 1809 - 544 pages
...been compared by the prophet Joel (ii. 3.) to a great army ; who farther 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 /uvturtfut %I$K, or siuord "with ten thousand edges,... | |
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