 | Henry Ainsworth - 1843 - 760 Seiten
...eignifieth the glory of the kingdom of Israel; as it is written of the kingdom of Assyria, ' behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, &c. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high, with her rivers... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...Ezekiel, where it is assumed as a type of the grandeur and strength of the Assyrian empire. " 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 Thus was he fair in his greatness,... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...sacred writings it is often alluded to as an emblem of great strength, beauty, and duration. " 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. His boughs were multiplied, and his... | |
 | 1845 - 350 Seiten
...word of God had gone forth against it, and its power was withered, its glory passed away. " 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, The waters made him great, the deep... | |
 | 1847 - 614 Seiten
...which the Prophet EZUKIEL so finely used as a simile in describing a great empire ; — " Be68 hold the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. His boughs were multiplied, and his... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1847 - 380 Seiten
...Babylon and Egypt were brought low, and the princes of Media and Persia were humbled in the dust. " 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 cedars in the garden of God could... | |
 | Old Humphrey - 1799 - 368 Seiten
...Babylon and Egypt were brought low, and the princes of Media and Persia were humbled in the dust; " 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 cedars in the garden of God could... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1847 - 660 Seiten
...'excellent' (Cant v. 15) ; 'choice' (Jer. xxii. 7). Ezekiel has given a striking portrait of the tree : — ' 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... | |
 | 1849 - 620 Seiten
...the corn now waved. Egypt has monuments no less ancient, and no less wonderful, but they have stood forth for ages to testify her early power and renown,...with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud of high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. His height was exalted above all the trees of... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1849 - 386 Seiten
...the corn now waved. Egypt has monuments no less ancient and no less wonderful; but they have stood forth for ages to testify her early power and renown...with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs .... his height was exalted above all the trees... | |
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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. 
