A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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DREAD—DREADFUL.

Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?—Job, xiii. 11.

Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.—Job, xiii. 21.

They were so high, that they were dreadful.—Ezekiel, i. 18.

I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.—Malachi, i. 14.

Next saw we Dread, all trembling, how he shook,

With foot uncertain, proffer’d here and there;

Benumb’d with speech; and with a ghastly look,

Search’d every place, all pale and dread for fear;

His cap borne up with starting of his hair;