| James Seaton Reid - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 568 pages
...churches, was soon after followed by the other prelates of Ulster. To the ministers, this was now indeed " a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness." Had the bishops deprived them only of their churches and maintenance, and cut them off from connection... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1862 - 578 pages
...For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness — a, great people and a strong — a fire devoureth before them, and behind them a name burneth ;... | |
| England - 1835 - 802 pages
...Let nil the inhabitants of the land tremble : For the day of the Lord cometh, For it is nigh at hand: A day of darkness and of gloominess, A day of clouds...darkness, As the morning spread upon the mountains: Thero hath not been ever the like, A great people and a strong : Neither shall be any more after it.... | |
| James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - Insects - 1835 - 332 pages
...recognise the description given by the prophet Joel of their devastations, as sublimely characteristic : " A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning opened upon the mountains : a great people and a strong. A fire devoureth before them, and behind them... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1835 - 600 pages
...people through the dominions of the receding Aborigines, shall be, in the expressive words of Scripture, 'as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people, and a strong ; of whom there hath not been ever the fike, neither shall be any more after it, to the years of many... | |
| Thomas Bissland - Sermons, English - 1835 - 434 pages
...given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead ;" a day to the enemies of God "of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness," that there is not a secret thought of the least that is not fully known to Jehovah, and for which we... | |
| Bible - 1838 - 900 pages
...all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the LORD cometh, for it ix nigh at hand; '2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds...after it, even to the years 'of many generations. 3 A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand : a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds...more after it, even to the years of many generations. 5. SELECTION FROM CHAPTER VIII OF THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. Doth not wisdom cry ? and understanding put... | |
| 1836 - 364 pages
...mountain : Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : For the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is near : A day of darkness and of gloominess ; A day of clouds and of thick darkness. As the dusk spread upon the mountains Cometh a people numerous and strong. Like them there hath not been of... | |
| 1836 - 240 pages
...In this two-fold view it is sometimes alluded to ; as when Joel declares the day of the Lord, to be "a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains. "& So Amos, addressing the ungodly, cries, "woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord ! to what... | |
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