 | William Russell - 1801 - 510 pages
...the Assyrian empire are finely described by the prophet Ezekiel, under the similitude of a tree. " Behold, the " Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a PART I. their dominion from the borders of Egypt, i the frontiers of India. In the prosecution... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1806 - 416 pages
...his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? thou thinkest no prince equal to 3 thyself, but Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs ; it overtopped... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and he? daughters shall go into captivity. XXXI. 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. Behold, the... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian wan a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 606 pages
...flourishing state : " The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair "-branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an " high stature, and his top was among the thick " boughs. The waters made him great, the deep set " him up on high, with her rivers running round " about his... | |
 | Samuel Horsley - 1820 - 408 pages
...4126 Egypt subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, - - 4148 — " with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs ;" rather, " fair in shoots, and thick in an overshadowing top, and tall in stem, and his topmost shoot... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (minister of Laxton.) - 1824 - 368 pages
...power would vanish away. Under the same emblem Ezekiel ( xxxi. 3 — 6 ) describes the Assyrian empire. "Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadow ing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. — His... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...water, where the greatness and glory of Assyria is likened unto a Cedar-tree. It is thus described : " Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. " Therefore... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? 3 ll not profit •with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; aud his tup was among the thick boughs. 4 The... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? *m*»ft"rqr ^ ^ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon * with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. t or, lumruh-... | |
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Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, VOL. III. K and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. 
