...than the exclulion of the world ? We retire into a folitary place — we fit down to meditate — " I beheld and lo ! there was no man, and all the birds of the. heavens were fled." Jcr. iv. 25. Here feated in folitude, under the canopy of heaven, in our clofet, or in our prifon,...

...none understanding : they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. , 1 beheld T beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void : and the heavens, and they had no fight. I beheld the mountans, and lo they trembled : and «11 the hills moved lightly, I beheld, and...

...edition. of the romans, there is a beautiful prophetic description in the fourth chapter of Jeremiah. " / beheld the earth, and lo ! it -was without form and void ; and the heavens, and they bad no light. I beheld the mountains, and lo ! they trembled, and all the bills moved lightly. I beheld,...

...beheld the earth, and, lo ! disorder and con^ fusion ; The heavens also, and there was no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo! they trembled ; And all the hills shook. 25 I beheld, and, lo ! there was not a man ; And all the fowls of the heavens were fled. 26...

...Bifliop Stock's notes j and comp. xxiv. 20 to 23 ; xxxiv. 2, 3,. 6, to 17 ; Jer. xlvi. 10. Jef. iv. 23. I beheld the earth, and lo, it was without form and void ; and the heavens, and they had no light. Ver. 24. I beheld the mountains, and lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. Ver. 25. All...

...and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. So again, Jer. iv. 23. / beheld the earth, and to it was without form and void, and the Heavens, and they had no light \ I beheld and there wras no man, and all the birds of the Heavens were Jled. From the use of this language, says...

...ver.) there is a passage equally singular, and equally in point. "/ beheld the earth, and to ! it -wa» -void, and the heavens, and they had no light : I beheld the mountains, and they were removed, and all the hills moved lightly : I beheld, and there was no man, and all the birds...

...and they have none understanding : they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form and...man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled." The moral desolation is represented by sensible images, and is depicted as an earthly desolation ;...

...nation of the successful approach of the Babylonians, to destroy their government and nation, he says, " I beheld the earth, and lo ! it was without form and...mountains, and lo ! they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly."f So Joel, speaking of the same event, " the earth shall quake before them — the heavens...

...of the successful approach of the Babylonians, to destroy their government and nation, he says, *' I beheld the earth, and lo ! it was without form and...the mountains, and lo ! they trembled, and all the bills moved lightly." J So Joel, speaking of the same event, " the earth shall quake before them —...