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" 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 379
edited by - 1845
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Ancient history [by D.M. Masson].

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...
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“The” Ansayrii, and the Assassins: With Travels in the Further ..., Volume 2

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,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 30

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,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 30

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,...
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The Lily and the Bee: An Apologue of the Crystal Palace

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,...
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The light of other days; or, The lesson of Nineveh

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...
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Modern geography simplified, by a member of the society of friends

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;...
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Sacred Streams; Or: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible

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...
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Prophets, continued and concluded

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,...
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Ruins of sacred and historic lands. Babylon, Nineveh &c

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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