 | George Rawlinson - 1862 - 534 pages
...pp. 600, 601. Supra, p. 289. CHAPTER III. THE PEOPLE. " The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, fair of branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs Nor was any tree hi the garden of God like unto him in his beauty." — Ezek. xixi. 3 and 8. THE ethnic... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1863 - 632 pages
...king is comparable to thee in power and greatness. 3. "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and...stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs."] — Behold, the king of Assyria was a greater monarch than thyself: he was, in comparison of thee,... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 720 pages
...a kind of spice for which the land of Judah was noted. " Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and...stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs," &c. (xxxi. 3-9.) This passage is one of great beauty. The imagery is of the richest kind. His theme... | |
 | . - 1863 - 684 pages
...description of the cedar, and explains its peculiarities. "Behold the Assyrian was like a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top was among the the thick boughs. His height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied,... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1863 - 360 pages
...grieving thorn in the service of His righteous wrath ? Was not the Assyrian like a cedar of Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, yet upon his ruin all the fowls of the heaven remained, and all the beasts of the field upon his branches... | |
 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1890 - 672 pages
...his multitude : Whom ar& thou like, in thy greatness ? Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and...high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with lier rivers running round about his plants,... | |
 | Benjamin Wills Newton - 1890 - 674 pages
...his multitude : Whom art thou like, in thy greatness ? Behold, tlie Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and...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 plants,... | |
 | Robert Brown (of Barton-upon-Humber.) - 1890 - 700 pages
...socalled Church of Rome3 — in the following manner, " Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his 1 Dan. iv. 9-12, 19-22. » Jer. It. 7. » See the writer's " Babylonism : or, the devil's travesty... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 346 pages
...3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 Behold hee was a Cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a Shadowing Shrowd and of an High Stature, and his Top was among the Thick Boughs. The waters made him great, the Deep Sett him up on High with her Rivers running about his plants. His... | |
 | John Milton - 1891 - 242 pages
...common meaning was ' the shelter of the branches of a tree ; ' cf. Ezek. xxxi. 8, " a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature." 219. Anthems. See // Pen. 163, note. 220. Sable-stoKd. ie robed in black; cf. // Pen. 35, and Tennyson's... | |
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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. 
