Isaiah 33:17 Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off. Then they went on till they came to the Delectable Mountains, which belong to the Lord of the country towards which they were journeying. So they went up the mountains to behold the gardens and orchards, the vineyards and fountains of water. Now there were on the top of these mountains shepherds feeding their flocks. The pilgrims, therefore, went to them and asked: "Whose Delectable Mountains are these? and whose sheep be they that feed on them?" And the shepherds answered "These mountains are Emmanuel's Land: and they are within sight of His city; the sheep are His. 'He laid down His life for them.'" Then said the shepherds one to another, "Let us show the pilgrims the gates to the celestial city, if they have skill to look through our perspective-glass." Then the pilgrims lovingly accepted the motion; so they led them to the top of a hill called Clear, and gave them the glass to look through. Then they tried to look; but the remembrance of the last things that the shepherds had showed them made their hands shake; by means of which impediment they could not look steadily through the glass: yet they thought they saw something like the gate, and also some of the glory of the place. ( Bunyans Pilgrim's Progress.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.WEB: Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land. |
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