DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.12665#0053
44
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
CHAPTER III.
Prophecy ami Fulfilment.—Unpleasant Suggestions.—The De-
nounced Land.—Management.—A Rencounter.—An Arab's
Cunning.—The Camel's Hump.—Adventure with a Lamb.—
Mount Hor.—Delicate Negotiations.—Approach to Petra.
I had now crossed the borders of Edom. Stand-
ing near the shore of the Elanitic branch of the
Red Sea, the doomed and accursed land Jay
stretched out before me, the theatre of awful
prophecies and their more awful fulfilment; given
to Esau as being of the fatness of the earth, but
now a barren waste, a picture of death, an eternal
monument of the wrath of an offended God, and a
fearful witness to the truth of the words spoken by
his prophets. " For my sword shall be bathed in
heaven: behold, it shall corne down upon Idumea,
and upon the people of my curse, to judgment."
" From generation to generation it shall lie waste ;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But
the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the
owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he
shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and
the stones of emptiness. They shall call the no-
bles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
there, and all her princes shall be nothing. And
thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL.
CHAPTER III.
Prophecy ami Fulfilment.—Unpleasant Suggestions.—The De-
nounced Land.—Management.—A Rencounter.—An Arab's
Cunning.—The Camel's Hump.—Adventure with a Lamb.—
Mount Hor.—Delicate Negotiations.—Approach to Petra.
I had now crossed the borders of Edom. Stand-
ing near the shore of the Elanitic branch of the
Red Sea, the doomed and accursed land Jay
stretched out before me, the theatre of awful
prophecies and their more awful fulfilment; given
to Esau as being of the fatness of the earth, but
now a barren waste, a picture of death, an eternal
monument of the wrath of an offended God, and a
fearful witness to the truth of the words spoken by
his prophets. " For my sword shall be bathed in
heaven: behold, it shall corne down upon Idumea,
and upon the people of my curse, to judgment."
" From generation to generation it shall lie waste ;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever. But
the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the
owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he
shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and
the stones of emptiness. They shall call the no-
bles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
there, and all her princes shall be nothing. And
thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and