 | Miss S Waring - Huguenots - 1833 - 252 pages
...not without leaving mournful traces of their visits. It might almost be said of them, " The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." After some time had passed, the persecuted Protestants, finding all was quiet, ventured to steal forth... | |
 | Susanna Boone - 1833 - 262 pages
...not without leaving mournful traces of their visits. It might almost be said of them, " The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." After some time had passed, the persecuted Protestants, finding all was quiet, ventured to steal forth... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - Bible - 1833 - 394 pages
...JALEK leave, the CHASIL devour. Before them a fire cuusumeth, And behind a flame burneth: The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them a wilderness of desolation; Yea, and nothing shall escape them. They consume like a general conflagration.... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1834 - 436 pages
...use. No pen has so beautifully depicted their ravages as that of the Prophet Joel : — " The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness."* Africa, Egypt, Persia, and the whole of Asia, are subject to their visitations. In Arabia the locusts... | |
 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...caustic, or bitter plants, as well as the juicy and nutritive, are equally consumed ; and thus " the land is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness." It seems as if nothing could appease their devouring hunger, and the energy and activity they exhibit,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1881 - 528 pages
...like. A fire devoured before them, and behind them the flame of their great city burned. The land was as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. The appearance of them was as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen so did they run. They ran like... | |
 | John F. Gregorek - 2000 - 410 pages
...years of many generations. 3 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 none hath escaped them. 5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like... | |
 | Thomas C. Nixon - 2002 - 390 pages
...years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame bunieth; the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness, yea and nothing (no person) shall escape them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses,... | |
 | Jc Alexander - Religion - 2003 - 424 pages
...finally Joel 2:3 tells us, "A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the Garden of Eden before them and behind them...desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them." AH these passages speak of the complete destruction of the armies of the anti-Christ when he attempts... | |
 | Yoel Natan - Religion - 2003 - 395 pages
...generations. — — ! — A fire devours before them,, and behind them,, a -flame burns. The land Is as the ¿garden of Eden before them,, and behind them,, a desolate wilderness, yes, and no one has escaped them,. — — : — The appearance of them. Is as the appearance of horses,... | |
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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. 
