Pencillings in Palestine: Being Scenes Descriptive of the Holy Land and Other Countries in the East : Written During a Visit in 1850 |
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Ain Musa Akabah April Arabs beautiful Behold Beth-el BLESSING bright Cairo called Carmel child Damascus dark Dead Sea deep Desert desolate Dolorosa earth Edom Egypt Egyptians El Shaddai Elijah EZION-GEBER fair FAREWELL TO JERUSALEM flowers foretold Galilee gate gaze glory golden green hast heart heaven hills Holy Israel Israelites Jebel Jebel Musa Jehovah Jericho Jerusalem Jews JOKTHEEL Jordan Judah's Karnak Kedar kings land leper lone look Lord Marah miles mother Mount Hor Mount of Olives mountain Musa Nabloos Nain Nazareth Nebaioth night numbers o'er Olives Palestine pass Petra pilgrim PLACE OF WAILING plain prophets Red Sea river rock sailed Samaria scarlet line seen Shaddai Shekh shining Shishak shore Sinai sorrow soul stone strange streets sweet Temple tents Thebes thee thine thou Timsa tomb traveller tree Tyre Via Dolorosa voice Wady walls wandering wave weary weep word Zion
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Page 110 - He giveth snow like wool : He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth His ice like morsels : Who can stand before His cold? He sendeth out His word, and melteth them : He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Page 10 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 120 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 49 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
Page 119 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 1 - And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water.
Page 120 - When the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Page 51 - All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee : they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
Page 89 - Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Page 55 - A stranger yet to pain ! I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As, waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to sooth, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.