| William Cooke Taylor - Europe - 1845 - 852 pages
...is in it or near it, and the fearful denunciation of the prophet Isaiah is literally fulfilled : " The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the...stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - Europe - 1845 - 872 pages
...is in it or near it, and the fearful denunciation of the prophet Isaiah is literally fulfilled : " The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the...stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - History, Ancient - 1845 - 382 pages
...is in it or near it, and the fearful denunciation of the prophet Isaiah is literally fulfilled : " The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the...stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and... | |
| John L. Stephens - Arabian Peninsula - 1845 - 604 pages
...judgment." " From generation to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess...dwell in it ; and he shall stretch out upon it the lino of confusion and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but... | |
| Melville Davisson Post - 1910 - 392 pages
...and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, said the Lord of hosts. . . . The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the...stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. . . . And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and... | |
| Alice B. Macdonald - English language - 1911 - 630 pages
...20-22. And again : I will also make it A possession for the bittern And for pools of water. And again : But the cormorant and the bittern Shall possess it; The owl also and the raven Shall dwell in it: xiv. 23. STUDIES IN LITER A TURE. 107 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet With the wild beasts... | |
| Henry Baker Tristram - Nature in the Bible - 1911 - 542 pages
...young in security. Its presence is thus taken as an illustration of the coming desolation of Edom. " The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it" (Isa. xxxiv. 11). The Hebrew name of the Raven, 'oreb, is from a root signifying to be black, and in... | |
| Henry Baker Tristram - Nature in the Bible - 1911 - 542 pages
...young in security. Its presence is thus taken as an illustration of the coming desolation of Edom. " The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it" (Isa. xxxiv. 11). The Hebrew name of the Raven, 'oreb, is from a root signifying to be black, and in... | |
| James Edson White - End of the world - 1911 - 336 pages
...universal destruction, the prophet says : " From generation to generation shall it lie waste. . . . He shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness." Isaiah 34 : 10, 1 r. Storms and Tidal Waves " Stormy wind fulfilling His word."... | |
| Methodist Church - 1843 - 666 pages
...judgment. From generation to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through it for ever and ever ; but the cormorant and the bittern shall possess...raven shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out the lines of confusion and the stores of unfitness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,... | |
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