HEAR this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. The British Critic: A New Review - Page 2601811Full view - About this book
| Samuel Hoole - 1786 - 348 pages
...was to devouf the fruits of the earth, and convert their pleafant vales into a defolate wildernefs. Hear this ye old men, and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land, awake ye drunkards and weep, for a nation is come up,flrong and without number. Nor was this the only... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1803 - 492 pages
...look for our apples in a barrel. This is "The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. "Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land! Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? . . . " That which the palmerworm... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...ready to perish for want of water. 1 rl~1HE word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pe2 JL thuel. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers ? Is not the calamity with which I... | |
| Charles Walmesley - 1807 - 696 pages
...those cases, but agree very properly with the army of the Apocalypse. Thus cries out Joel, Chap. iv 2. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear all ye inhabitants of th: land: did this ever happen in your days, or in the days of your fatliers ? V. 3. Tell ye of this... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...and to mourn. 14 Heprescribethafast. rPHE word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of •f the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers ? 3 Tell ye your children... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1809 - 412 pages
...restoration of Judah. . ..,' i Joel i. 1. The word of the Lord that came Unto Joel, the son of Pethuel. 2. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers ? 3. Tell ye your children of it,... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1809 - 412 pages
...the restoration of Judah. Joel i. 1. The word of the Lord that came unto Joel, the son of Pethuel. 2. Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers ? 3. Tell ye your children of it,... | |
| William Newcome - 1809 - 424 pages
...Christ 6Q6, THE BOOK OF JOEL. CHAP. I. 1 1 HE Word of Jehovah which came to JoeJ the son of Pethuel, 2 Hear this, ye old men; And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath * this happened in your days: Or even in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye your children of... | |
| William Newcome - 1809 - 418 pages
...BOOK OF JOEL. CHAP. I. 4 1 HE Word of Jehovah which came to Joel the son of Pethuel. 2 Hear tliis, ye old men; And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath * this happened ia your days: Or even in the days of your fathers? 3 Tell ye your children of... | |
| 1811 - 694 pages
...general, there can be little doubt of its efficacy. We will give a quotation from this fermon as an example of the author's ftyle: we are, indeed, aware...this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants *f the land ;' not ye only, who are bowed down with age and infirmity, but ye alfo, upon whom { grey... | |
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