| George Oliver - 1867 - 464 Seiten
...it is mdeed, as Jeremiah has said, (ii. 6,) "a land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought and of the shadow of death ; a land that no man passed through, and wheiv no man dwelt." In one place he says, " the path winded round the side of the mountain, and to... | |
| Henry Allon - 1866 - 670 Seiten
...occur in the desert ; it is ' a land of deserts and of pits' as well as ' aland of drought, ' and of the shadow of death ; a land that no man passed through, ' and where no man dwelt.' Some of these pits are singularly formed, and are very extensive ; they resemble a series of... | |
| Andrew Crichton - 1868 - 426 Seiten
...precarious nourishment from the nightly dews. An inspired pen has truly described this steril country as " a land of deserts, and of pits ; a land of drought, and of the shadow of death ; a land that no man passed through." — (Jer. ii. 6.) This general aspect... | |
| Anna Bartlett Warner - 1869 - 138 Seiten
...of death.'—JOB xvi. 16. We are in ' A land where the very light is as darkness.'— JOB x. 22. ' A land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt.'—JER. ii. 6. What... | |
| 1869 - 436 Seiten
...through a dangerous and desolate country—"a waste howling wilderness," as it is emphatically called; "a land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought, and of the shadow of death; a land that no man passeth through, and where no man dwelt." Notwithstanding... | |
| John Bunyan - 1870 - 432 Seiten
...Now, this valley is a very solitary place. The prophet Jeremiah thus describes it : "A wilderness, a land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, a land that no man" (but a Christian) " passed through, and where no man dwelt,"... | |
| Thomas Lumisden Strange - 1871 - 422 Seiten
...wilderness" (Deut. i. 19; viii. 15; xxxii. 10); "a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt" (Jer. ii. 6). Here they were kept fort}' years, and had to make lengthened halts, it might be... | |
| John Bunyan - 1872 - 1074 Seiten
...it. Now this valley is a very solitary place. The prophet Jeremiah thus describes it: "A wilderness, a land of deserts and of pits; a land of drought, and of the shadow of death; a land that no man (but' a lievcr's pilgrimage through this world to heaven.... | |
| Library - 1873 - 1084 Seiten
...Now, this valley is a very solitary place. The prophet Jeremiah thus describes it : "A wilderness, a land of deserts and of pits ; a land of drought, and of the shadow of death ; a land that no man " (but a Christian) " passed through, and where no man... | |
| 1873 - 1090 Seiten
...Now, this valley is a very solitary place. The prophet Jeremiah thus describes it : "A wilderness, a land of deserts and of pits ; a land of drought, and of the shadow of death ; a land that no man " (but a Christian) " passed through, and where no man... | |
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