 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1838 - 540 pages
...upon."§ The same prediction is repeated with an assurance of its trulh: — "I will make her like Ihe top of a rock; it shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it." Tyre, though deprived of its former inhabitants, soon revived as a city, and greatly... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...gives emphasis and illustration to the denunciation of the Prophet Ezekiel (xxvi. 5), that it should be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea. In prophetic anticipation of the destruction of Tyre, Isaiah calls upon the inhabitants, and says (xxiii.... | |
 | Andrew Alexander Bonar, Robert Murray M'Cheyne - 1839 - 608 pages
...of Ezekiel, " They shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a...the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea ; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God." * Alexander the Great seems actually to have scraped away the... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1839 - 672 pages
...the sea, or rather " scraped," according to the word of the prophet Ezekiel ; " I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock." (ch. xxvi. 4.) This conjecture once formed, I mounted my horse and returned to Sur, in order to arrive... | |
 | Ferdinand freiherr von Geramb - 1840 - 790 pages
...come up. " And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers : I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a...the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea : for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God, and it shall become a spoil to the nations. " And her daughters... | |
 | 1840 - 356 pages
...follies all, And censure from the wise, I fear, most powerless will fall." EA TYRE. BY RC WATERSTON. " It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea ; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, and the sound of... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1840 - 500 pages
...break down her towers ,- I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock, ft shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea : for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God. (Ezek. xxvi. 3 — 5.) To show the certainty of the destruction,... | |
 | Sarah Rogers Haight - 1840 - 344 pages
..." The most minute prophecy against ' the joyous city' is literally fulfilled, for it is even now ' a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea ; fishermen's barks are seen drawn up on the strand, and their nets drying on the rocks and ruins.'... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 pages
...to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers : I will also scmpe her dust from her, and make her like the top of a...the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea : for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God ; and it shall become a spoil to the nations." (Kzel- ici, xxvi.)... | |
 | David Nelson - 1841 - 362 pages
...very dust from off her." 3. It was declared by the prophet, more than twenty-three centuries since, " It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea." Should the desolation be as complete as that of Babylon, who shall carry their nets there to dry them... | |
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And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord... 
