 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars ; and they shall say tvith the utmost consternation to the mountains, Cover us ; and to the hills, Fall on us : such shall be their misery, that they will tuishfjr the most terrible death, rather 9 than continue... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pages
...Hosea hath carried the same image further, and added great strength and spirit to ik ,(cap. x. 8.) They shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us; which image, together with these of Isaiah, is adopted by the sublime author of the Revelation, (cap.... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...prophetHosea hath carried the same image further, and added great strength and spirit to it. (cap. 1O, 8.) They shall say to the mountains, Cover us ; and to the hills, Full on us; which image, together with Y these of Isaiah, is adopted by the sublime author of the Revelation,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...captivity, and shall vanish and sink as a bubble or foam in the water. • X. 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed : the...mountains, Cover us ; and to the hills, Fall on us. The high places also of Beth-el (or Beth-aven rather), wherein Israel hath so palpably sinned, shatl... | |
 | Johann Jacob Rambach - 1811 - 442 pages
...pathetic representation of the wretchedness of the ten Tribes in the Assyrian captivity, in these words, ' and they shall say to the mountains, cover us ! and to the hills, fall on us !' (Hosea x. 8.) Thus the Prophet Isaiah, in his description of the deplorable siege of Jerusalem by... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 pages
...Hosea hath carried the same image further, and added great strength and spirit to it, (cap. x. 8.) they shall say to the mountains? Cover us ; and to the hills, Fall on us; which image, together witk these of Isaiah, is adopted by the sublime author of the Revelation, (cap.... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 pages
...style are called, seeking death, and not finding it, Rev. ix. 6. cursing the day «/ birth, saying to the mountains, Cover us ,• and to the hills, Fall on us, Jer. xx. 14. expressing despair in these miserable requests, Mountains .' fall on us ; rocks ! hide... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...xxviii. 24 ; Exod. xxii. 6 ; 2 Sam. xxiii. 6 ; Ps. cxviii. 12 ; Isa. xxxiii. 12 ; Jer. ir. 3, xii. 13. come up on their altars, and they shall say to the...mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us." Sic, siccim, siccoth, appear to refer to some plant large enough, like chedek, to be employed for hedges,... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed : the thorn and the thistle shall corne up on their altars ; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us ; and to the hills, Fall on us. 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah : there they stood : the battle in Gibeah against... | |
 | Robert Lowth - 1815 - 436 pages
...Hosea hath carried the same image further, and added great strength and spirit to it : chap. x. 8: " They shall say to the mountains, Cover us ; And to the hills, Fall on us.'* Which image, together with these of Isaiah, is adopted by the sublime author of the Revelation, (chap.... | |
| |
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. 
