 | John Hamilton Gray - 1842 - 468 sider
...to pass, after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth, and all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." (Geu. vii.) What must now have been their feelings, when the incessant rain poured down... | |
 | 1843 - 592 sider
...the last, would solemnly gather together in prayer and supplication, on the day when the foundations of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, awaiting in that posture, the consummation of the will of Jehovah. And if so, they doubtless... | |
 | Last days - 1843 - 154 sider
...the Almighty made no impression upon a guilty world, and at the appointed season, — " The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of Heaven were opened" and " the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and all the high hills that were... | |
 | 1921 - 884 sider
...beast, bird, and creeping thing, and redolent of the same, as the gang-plank was drawn in, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Lot, in his doomed little city, through the dim streets of which those radiant strangers... | |
 | R. D. Keynes - 1979 - 436 sider
...of water and volcanic agency which is shadowed forth to our minds by the expression 'the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened'. The upheaval of the island of Santa Maria has been quoted by geologists, from my statement;... | |
 | W. Herschel Ford - 1983 - 340 sider
...the Flood. The rain began to patter, then burst out in all the fury of an enraged God: the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. Soon the fields were covered, then the hills, then the mountaintops. I can imagine the... | |
 | Friedrich Hölderlin - 1984 - 312 sider
..."windows of heaven" may be taken from the account of the Flood in Genesis 7:11, ". . . the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." The title of the hymn (literally, "that which is nearest is best") is picked up in line... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - 508 sider
...of water and volcanic agency which is shadowed forth to our minds by the expression 'the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.' The upheaval of the island of Santa Maria has been quoted by geologists, from my statement;... | |
 | American Oriental Society - 1896 - 224 sider
...priestly account of the Deluge, where we read that in the 600th year of Noah's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven opened. Assyr. edu, however, is never used of underground water. In all the passages I know of, it refers to... | |
 | Göran Stockenström - 1988 - 399 sider
...these narratives. The fountain and windows of the set may recall the biblical passage: "the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened" (Genesis 7:11). There is a certain potential for disaster "written into" these objects.... | |
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All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 
