A visit to Jerusalem and the holy places adjacentJ. Haddon, 1828 - 72 Seiten |
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Seite 17 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Seite 18 - Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old,* when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Seite 17 - And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
Seite 18 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Seite 18 - The crown is fallen from our head : woe unto us, that we have sinned ! for this our heart is faint ; for these things our eyes are dim. Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Seite 18 - Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Seite 18 - The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. The crown is fallen from our head : woe unto us, that we have sinned...
Seite 14 - At the same time, to men interested in tracing, within the walls, antiquities referred to by the documents of sacred history, no spectacle can be more mortifying than the city in its present state. The mistaken piety of the early Christians, in attempting to preserve, either confused or annihilated the memorials it endeavoured to perpetuate.
Seite 16 - Antonia and the second palace of Herod. The houses of Jerusalem are heavy square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows : they have flat terraces or domes on the top, and look like prisons or sepulchres. The whole would appear to the eye one uninterrupted level, did not the steeples of the churches, the minarets of the mosques, the summits of a few cypresses, and the clumps of nopals, break the uniformity of the plan. On beholding these stone buildings, encompassed by a stony country, you...
Seite 18 - Cast your eyes between the temple and Mount Sion ; behold another petty tribe, cut off from the rest of the inhabitants of this city. The particular objects of every species of degradation, these people bow their heads without murmuring ; they endure every kind of insult without demanding justice ; they sink beneath repeated blows without sighing ; if their head be required, they present it to the scimitar.