the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the brook. And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. Job v, 20. In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. Psalm xxxiii, 18, 19. Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy: To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Psalm xxxvii, 19. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. Ezek. xxxvi, 29, 30. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses; and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen. Joel ii, 19. Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfled therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen. MEANS AGAINST FAMINE. Gen. xli, 34-37. Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaohi, and in the eyes of all his servants. Gen.xli 48,49,57. And he gather ed up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left num bering, for it was without number And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands. Gen. xlii, 1-5. Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him. And the sons of Israel came to buy corn famine was in the land of Canaan. among those that came: for the Gen. xliii, 1-5. And the famine was sore in the land. And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying. Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food: But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you. Gen. xliv, 25, 26. And our father said, Go again and buy us a little food. And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us. in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. Josh. xvii, 17, 18. And Joshna spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only: But the and the outgoings of it shall be mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong. was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wool devoured more people that day 2 Sam. xviii, 8. For the battle than the sword devoured. Job xxx. 7. Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. desolate and waste ground. Job xxxviii, 27. To satisfy the Psalm cxxxii, 6. Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. Isaiah v, 17. Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. Isaiah li, 3. For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all Prov. xi, 26. He that withhold-her waste places; and he will make eth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it. Acts xii, 20. And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king's chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king's country. UNRECLAIMED LAND, Gen. iv, 12. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. Num. xiv, 2. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! Deut. xxix, 23. And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath. Deut. xxxii, 10. He found him her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be the voice of melody. found therein, thanksgiving, and Jer. ii, 2. Go and cry in the cars of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Jer. ix, 2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. Jer. xxv, 24. And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert. Jer. 1, 12. Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. Ezek. xlvii, 11. But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. Micah vii, 14. Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. Zeph. ii, 9. Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breed ing of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. Matth. xi, 7. And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? Matth. xv. 33. And his disciples say unto him. Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? Mark vi, 31, 32. And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to cat. And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. Luke i, 80. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. NOXIOUS VEGETATION. Psalm Iviii, 9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. Prov. xxiv,31. And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and net tles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Eccles. vii, 6. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. Isaiah xxix, 17. Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? Isaiah xxxii, 13. Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city. Isaiah xxxiii, 12. And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. 13 Isaiah xxxiv, 13. And thorns shall come up in her palaces,nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof. Hosea ix, 6. For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. Hosea x, 8. 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. Micah vii, 4. The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity. Matth. vii, 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Heb. vi, 8. But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. CREATION OF THEM, So. green herb for meat: and it was all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this? In Gen. vi, 19, 20. And of every whose hand is the soul of every living thing of all flesh, two of living thing, and the breath of all Gen. 1, 20-25 And God said, every sort shalt thou bring into mankind. BY GOD. Let the waters bring forth abund- the ark, to keep them alive with Job xxxvii, 7, 8. He sealeth upthe Gen. xxxvii, 31-33. And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood; And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and every beast of the field, and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat every fowl of the air, and brought or no. And he knew it, and said, Gen. ii, 19, 20. And out of the ground the LORD God formed Job xxxix, 13. Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Psalm 1, 10. For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. Psalm xlix, 12. Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. Psalm civ, 20-22. Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions their meat from God. The sun roar after their prey, and seek them unto Adam to see what he It is my son's coat; an evil beast ariseth, they gather themselves would call them: and whatsoever hath devoured him; Joseph is Jer. xxvii, 5. I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. 1 Cor. xv,39. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and an other of birds. GOD'S PROVIDENCE OVER together, and lay them down in their dens. Psalm cxlvii, 9. He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. Lev. xxvi, 21, 22. And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon Ps. cxlviii, 7, 10, Praise the you according to your sins. I will LORD from the earth, ye dragons, also send wild beasts among you, and all deeps: Beasts, and all which shall rob you of your chil- cattle; creeping things, and flying dren, and destroy your cattle, and fowl. make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. Job v, 22, 23. At destruction and shalt thou be afraid of the beasts Job vi, 5. Doth the wild ass bray Job xii, 7-10. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; Gen. 1, 30. And to every beast and the fowls of the air, and they of the earth, and to every fowl of shall tell thee: Or speak to the the air, and to every thing that earth, and it shall teach thee; and creepeth upon the earth, wherein the fishes of the sea shall declare there is life, I have given every unto thee. Who knoweth not in 14 Is. i, 3. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Is. xliii, 20. The beast of the fleld shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. 18. xxxiv, 16. Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. Jer. viii, 7. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. Jer. xii, 4. How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, Ile shall not see our last end. Hosea il, 18. And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. Joel ii; 21, 22. Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Jonah iv, 11. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousa: 1 persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Zech. xiv, 15. And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. Matth. vi. 26. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Matth. x, 29. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. SUBJECTION TO MAN. Gen. i, 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them. Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. ix, 2. 3. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishies of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. Judges xiv, 5, 6. Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and. behold, a young lion roared beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Dan. iv, 12, 25. The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit 1 Sam. xvii, 34-37. And David thereof much, and in it was meat said unto Saul, Thy servant kept for all: the beasts of the field had his father's sheep, and there came shadow under it, and the fowls of a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb the heaven dwelt in the boughs out of the flock: And I went out thereof, and all flesh was fed of after him, and smote him, and de-it. That they shall drive thee livered it out of his mouth: and from men, and thy dwelling shall when he arose against me, I be with the beasts of the field, caught him by his beard, and and they shall make thee to eat smote him, and slew him. Thy grass as oxen, and they shall wet servant slew both the lion and the thee with the dew of heaven, and bear: and this uncircumcised seven times shall pass over thee, Philistine shall be as one of them, till thou know that the most High seeing he hath defled the armies ruleth in the kingdom of men, of the living God. David said and giveth it to whomsoever he moreover, The LORD that deliver- will. ed me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee. 2 Sam. xxiii, 20. And Benafah went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow. Job xxviii, 7, 8. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen. The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. Job xxxv, 11. Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? Ps. viii, 6-9. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Psalm xxxil, 9. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. James iii, 7. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind. WILD ANIMALS. Isa. xxxiv, 14. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow. Jer. 1, 39. Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild 15 Marki, 13. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him. them. 2 Sam. xvil, 8. For, said Hushal, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge withthe people. Prov. xvii, 12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly. Lam. iii, 10. He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. Hosea xili, 8. I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. BEHEMOTH OR HIPPOPOT- Job x1, 15-20, 22-24. Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; h eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares. BOAR. Ps. lxxx. 13. The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. CONEY. ITS ABODE INACCESSIBLE. P3. civ, 18. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies. Prov. xxx, 26. The conies are Hab. iii, 19. The LORD God is, my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' fect, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments. DOG. AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPT FOR ITS FILTHY AND PREDATORY HABITS. Exod. xi, 7. But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man that the LORD doth put a differor beast: that ye may know how ence between the Egyptians and Israel. Deut. xxiii, 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Judges vii, 5. So he brought but a feeble folk, yet make they down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. their houses in the rocks. DEER. AGILE AND BEAUTIFUL. Gen. xlix, 21. Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words. Job xxxix, 1-4. Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrows. Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them. Ps. xvii, 33. He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places. P3. xxix, 9. The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory. Ps. xlii. 1. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Prov. v. 19. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. Cant. ii, 17. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. Cant. vii, 3. Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. Cant. vill, 14. Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. 1 Sam. xvii, 43. And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 1 Sam. xxiv, 14. After whom ia the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 2 Sam. iii, 8. Then was Abner bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's very wroth for the words of Ishhead, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman? 2 Sam. ix, 8. And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? 2 Sam, xvi. 9. Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head. 1 Kin. xiv, 11. Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat. 1 Kin. xvi, 4. Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat. 1 Kin. xxi, 19, 23. And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, Saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. 2 Kin. viii, 13. And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria. Job xxx, 1. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. Ps. xxii, 16. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Ps. lix, 6. They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Ps. Ixviii, 23. That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same. Prov. xxvi, 11, 17. As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. Prov. xxx, 31. A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up. Eccles. ix, 4. For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. Isa. Ivi, 10, 11. His watchman are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Isa, lxvi, 3. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck. *** Jer. xv, 3. And I will appoint over them for kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. Matth. vii, 6. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you, Matth. xv, 26, 27. But he answer |