 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound the alarm in my holy mountain ; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand : a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness...  Alfred the great - Page 56by Thomas Hughes - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1852 - 356 pages
...3.) So in the prophecy of Joel, where the consummation of the church is spoken of, it is said to be "a day of darkness and of gloominess — a day of clouds, and of thick darkness." — (ii. 2.) And in Isaiah, where it is treated of Messiah's advent, " the people that walked in darkness... | |
 | 1852 - 710 pages
...than " consumed and destroyed." It has its day in the history of the church and of the world, and " a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness" has it been ; but, blessed be God ! it is far spent. And is there not reason to believe, that " the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Baker, Josiah Osgood, Artemas Nixon Johnson - 1852 - 438 pages
...inhabii.nitriof t,ho land tremble, for the day of the Lord | cometh— it is | nij ii at - hand. 3. A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick dark ness, as the morning spread up- | on. .the | mountains. 4. A great people and a strong, there... | |
 | Alexander Wallace - 1853 - 312 pages
...life of man. The lengthening shadows of family or national tribulation, have their counterpart in " a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains" — a season of prosperity is " the light... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 550 pages
...my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand; a day of darkness and of gloominess,...clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upo' the mountains." Joel ii. 1, 2. "The great day of the Lord 13 near, it is near, and hasteth greatly,... | |
 | 1854 - 524 pages
...found foretold by all the prophets, to whose predictions we have as yet referred. Joel testifies of a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness ; a day ushered in by wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke,... | |
 | Marcus Moritz Kalisch - 1855 - 672 pages
...pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also are perished. 1 1 . i , 'J. The day of the Lord comethj it is nigh at hand; a day of darkness and of gloominess,...day of clouds and of thick darkness. As the morning spreads over the mountains; so great i» the people and strong; never hath there been any like it,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1855 - 520 pages
...my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand : a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as tb« morning spread upon the mountains ; a great people and a strong, there hath not been ever the... | |
 | Giovanni Battista Pagani - 1855 - 384 pages
...mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : because the day of the Lord cometh, because it is nigh at hand. A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and whirlwinds : a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the mountains : the like to it... | |
 | Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1855 - 122 pages
...silent bosom furled, Reflect no gleam of orient light." 8. H. WHITMAN. CHAPTEK I. THE OLD DOCTRINE. * "A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness." — JOEL ii. 2. THE prevailing belief of the Christian Church hitherto, in regard to the state of infants... | |
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