| British birds - 1840 - 326 pągines
...raven is the emblem of desolation, as it is when the prophet, foretelling the doom of Edom, says, " The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it ;" and similar language is employed by Zephaniah in reference to Nineveh. Yes, in those splendid palaces,... | |
| 1840 - 508 pągines
...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 it ; the owl aLso and the raven shall <hvell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.... | |
| Robert Sears - 1841 - 414 pągines
[ El contingut d’aquesta pągina estą restringit ] | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - 372 pągines
...children of Israel, by the force of the sword, in the time of their calamity."— Ezekiel, xxxv., 3, 4. " The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it, the...stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness. The thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 pągines
...children of Israel, by the force of the sword, in the time of their calamity."— Ezekiel, xxxv., 3, 4. " The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it, the...raven shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out upon itthe line of confusion and the stones of emptiness. The thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles... | |
| James Grigor - 1841 - 500 pągines
...contemplative mind it engenders reflections of the most sorrowful description. A little while, and " the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it ; and upon it shall be stretched the line of confusion." HUNSTANTON PARK, THE SEAT OF H. LE STRANGE STYLEMAN... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1841 - 388 pągines
...rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. I will make thee perpetual desolations ;" " the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it ; and thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be... | |
| James Grigor - 1841 - 504 pągines
...contemplative mind it engenders reflections of the most sorrowful description. A little while, and " the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it ; and upon it shall be stretched the line of confusion." HUNSTANTON PARK, THE SEAT OF H. LE STRANGE STYLEMAN... | |
| Robert Sears - 1841 - 408 pągines
...ever and ever. But the eormtrant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the ravenshall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out upon it the line of conftbion, and the Btoncs of emptiness," &c. See also Isaiah xxxiv. 5 1017 ; also, Jeremiah xlix. 7-10... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pągines
...from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it...stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there,... | |
| |