This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, " I am, and there is none beside me:" how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. Dwight's American Magazine - Page 379edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
| David Mather Masson - 1851 - 314 pages
...is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart: I am, and there is none beside me. How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts...that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand!' So complete was the destruction of the once great Nineveh, that even in the fourth century before Christ... | |
| Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 1342 pages
...is the rejoicing city, that dwell* cftrelessly ; that said in her heart, I Am ; there is none beside me. How Is she become a desolation, a place for beasts...that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand." (Eeplmniah xi. 18—16.) In the evening, Mr. Layard returned to Mosnl. a distance of some twenty miles,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...the rejoicing city, that dwelt carelessly ; that said in her heart, I am ; and there is none beside me. How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts...that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand.' (Zephaniah ii. 14, 15. " In the evening, Mr. Layard returned to Mosul, a distance of some twenty miles,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1851 - 686 pages
...the rejoicing city, that dwelt carelessly '. that said in her heart, I am ; and there is none beside me. How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down iu ! every one that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand.' (Zephaniah ii. 14, 15. " In the evening,... | |
| Samuel Warren - Children's stories - 1851 - 282 pages
...besom of destruction. This is the rejoicing city, that dwelt carelessly ; that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me : how is she become a desolation !— Isaiah, xiv. 22, 23; Zeph., ii. 15. of that very self-same family : of all people, and nations,... | |
| T. Dalton - 1852 - 158 pages
...is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts...that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand." Zephaniah, chap. ii., 13, 14 and 15. Josiah was at this time king of J udah ; but these events did... | |
| Modern geography - 1852 - 176 pages
...is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts...that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand." Shortly after this prophetic denunciation, Assyria was invaded by hostile armies; Nineveh was besieged;... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - Bible - 1852 - 388 pages
...is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly ; that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me : how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts...Every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his head !"* BELOW the confluence of the Greater Zab with the Tigris, the point which may be considered... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1852 - 548 pages
...be laid hare. This is the rejoicing city, that dwelt in security, That said in her heart, ' I, and none besides me ! ' How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to couch in ! Every one that passcth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand." — ii. 13-15. The third chapter,... | |
| Ruins - 1852 - 464 pages
...north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. How has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in !' In the second century, Lucian, a native of a city on the banks of the Euphrates, testified that... | |
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