 | 1867 - 420 Seiten
...words of the prophet were fulfilled—" He will stretch out his hand against the north, and devour Assyria ; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And the flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations ; both the cormorant... | |
 | Ebenezer Davies - 1868 - 234 Seiten
...the cankerworm ; make thyself many as the locusts." (Nahum iii. 13 — 15.) Zephaniah also says, " He will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy...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... | |
 | Crosby Howard Wheeler - 1868 - 454 Seiten
...eighty years later still the prophet Zephaniah (ii. 13) says, " And he will stretch out his hand againsi the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness." But at last, soon after the utterance of this denunciation, the day of vengeance came, and, probably... | |
 | Ebenezer Henderson - 1868 - 500 Seiten
...propriety be so termed, is proved by Zeph, ii. 13 : " And he will stretchout his hand "pa's— ^>2, upon the North, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry as a wilderness." The Jews were accustomed to call Assyria and Babylonia the North, and the North country,... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1869 - 818 Seiten
...the place 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,...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, Lucian,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1870 - 744 Seiten
...upon the subject. As to Zephaniah ii. 13, the Jewish Bible treats the passage as follows : — "And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy...Assyria ; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and arid like the desert. And droves shall crouch in the midst of her, all the animals of nations : both... | |
 | John George Wood - 1869 - 758 Seiten
...the subject. As to Zephaniah ii. 13, the Jewish Bible treats the passage as follows : — " And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy...Assyria ; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and arid like the desert. And droves shall crouch in the midst of her, all the animals of nations : both... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1870 - 552 Seiten
...extent of Nineveh's degradation in succeeding ages is thus described in the prophecy of Zephaniah : ' He will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy...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... | |
 | 1871 - 966 Seiten
...place, even all the isles of the heathen. "Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword. '3And he vessel, that I may drink. '«And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations : both the cormorant... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1871 - 620 Seiten
...pitched their tents, and wild beasts and birds have had their haunts, for five-and-twenty centuries. " He will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy...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... | |
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And flocks shall lie down 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 the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover... 
