 | Morning call - 1850 - 612 ページ
...dwelt all great nations;" for now is " Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness, and flocks lie down in the midst of her: all the beasts of the nations, both the cormorant and bittern, lodge in the upper lintels of it ; their voice sings in the windows,... | |
 | Religious tract society - 1850 - 546 ページ
...very remarkable close of such a mighty kingdom ; but so it was foretold by the prophet Zephaniah. " He will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shaH lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1851 - 314 ページ
...glory. There are also some striking verses referring to the same subject in the prophecy of Zephaniah. ' He will stretch out His hand against the north, and...in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern'shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 682 ページ
...frugal meal : they cursed the people who made the place so strong, and their work so hard. " ' And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness, and flocks shall lie down in the midst of her;... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 406 ページ
...84 THE SCRIPTIIRES VERIFIED BY THE FIGURES. made the place so strong, and their work so hard. " And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness, and flocks shall lie down in the midst of her... | |
 | sir Austen Henry Layard - 1851 - 442 ページ
...dwelt all great nations ; " for now is " Nineveh a desolation and dry like a wilderness, and flocks lie down in the midst of her : all the beasts of the nations, both the cormorant and bittern, lodge in the upper lintels of it ; their voice sings in the windows... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1852 - 388 ページ
...inspired prophecy, the doom pronounced upon the beautiful, but guilty city, by the living God. " And He will stretch out his hand against the north, and...in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations ; both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it ; their voice shall sing... | |
 | Modern geography - 1852 - 176 ページ
...the great Assyrian empire, and Nineveh, its capital. The words of the prophet are these: "The Lord will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy...in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations : both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing... | |
 | T. Dalton - 1852 - 158 ページ
...drink of .the cup of trembling which God had put into the hands of his own people — " And be shall stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy...in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations : both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it ; their voice shall sing... | |
 | Ruins - 1852 - 464 ページ
...thereof. Affliction shall not rise up the second time. She is empty, and void, and waste. The Lord will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy...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,... | |
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And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall... 
