...your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And 1 1 as a besieged city9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have...

...apply to this Missionary station almost the very words of the prophet? " The daughter of Zion is found as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers. Except the Lord of Hosts had left this small remnant, this nation should have been as Sodom, and this...

...a warren ;] A parallel thought occurs in the first chapter of Isaiah, where the prophet, describing the desolation of Judah, says : " The daughter of...a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers," &c. I am informed, that near Aleppo, these lonely buildings are still made use of, it being necessary,...

...your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged City. Come now let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet,...

...and rain. The Prophet, no doubt, alludes to it, in that passage deploring the desolation of Judea : " The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." (Isaiah i. 8.) — Ibid. IN India I sometimes frequented places where the natives...

...without being from time to time thus watered." !•<' Minister. Turn to Isaiah i. 8. George. " And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." •l •' • Minister. The idea intended to be conveyed is that >,: loneliness...

...had been like Eden, " strangers devoured it in their presence." " And the daughter of Zion " was " left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city." They were " as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water."...

...in the first chapter of Isaiah, where the prophet, describing the desolation of Judah, says : " T he daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers," &c. 1 am informed, that near Aleppo, these lonely buildings are still made use of, it being necessary,...

...from the heat by day, b and the cold and dews by night.0 Hence the words of the prophet in Is. i. 8, " The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard (deserted, viz. after the vintage is past,) as a lodge, or temporary hut, in a garden of cucumbers."...

...will be ours; Tor God Almighty is with us. pp. 34 — JO. SCIUPTUI1E ItLCSTIlATIOSS. Isaiah i, 8. • The daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, AT the beginning of the rainy season, great quantities of melons, cucumbers and gourds are planted...