 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
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...the cedar- work. This is the rejoicing city, that said in her heart, lam, 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 hias, and wag his head."' Zeph. ii, 13—15. Zephaniah flourished but three years before his predictions... | |
 | Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1833 - 284 pages
...the cedar work. This is the rejoicing city, that said in her heart, ' I am, and there is none beside me :' how is she become a desolation, a place for...that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand, Zeph. ii. 13 — 15. These predictions have been remarkably accomplished upon Nineveh. A Greek historian,... | |
 | 1833 - 578 pages
...will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness : the rejoiciny city that dwelt carelessly, how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in ! " But for such denunciations as these, we might have supposed it impossible that magnificence, and... | |
 | Robert Haldane - Bible - 1834 - 534 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...that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand." Accordingly, Lucian, in the second century after Christ, affirms that Nineveh was utterly destroyed,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - 464 pages
...against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in !" f In the second century, Lucian, a native of a city on the banks of the Euphrates, testified that... | |
 | Baptists - 1850 - 664 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." The prophet Nahum also foretells the ruin of Nineveh as a complete and perpetual desolation. For many... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 900 pages
...the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, 'I am, and the re is none beside L passcth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. • Or, ptlicax. Min.34.il. • Or. Iniupt. or. cttapttm.... | |
 | 1836 - 462 pages
...her cedar work. 15 This is the rejoicing city, that sat in security; That said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me. How is she become || a desolation, a place for beasts to couch in ! Every one that passeth by her will hiss, and will move his hand. CHAPTER III. WOE to her... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1836 - 322 pages
...against the north and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in." In the second century, Luci.ln, who was born on the banks of the Euphrates, testified, that Nineveh... | |
 | Robert Mignan - 1839 - 328 pages
...Seleucus, Antigonus, Demetrius, Antiochus, Trajan, Severus, Julian, Heraclius, Omar, Hulakoo, thresholds. How is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!" (Zephaniah ii. 13, 14, 15). * Chaldaea was once the most fertile region of the whole East (Agrum totius... | |
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