 | Austen Henry Layard - 1854 - 494 sider
...corn now waved. Egypt has monuments no less ancient and no less wonderful ; but they have stood I e i forth for ages to testify her early power and renown...with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs .... his height was exalted above all the... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1854 - 736 sider
...renown ; whilst those before me had but now appeared to bear witness in the words of the prophet, thai once " the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon 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... | |
 | John Kitto - 1854 - 830 sider
...magnificent, and at the same time the most graphic, description of this celebrated treo: (ver. 3) 'Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowy shroud, and of an high stature ; and bis top was among the thick boughs :' (ver. 5) • Therefore... | |
 | Austen Henry Layard - 1855 - 168 sider
...no less wonderful ; but they have stood forth for ages to testify her early power and renown ; while those before me had but now appeared to bear witness,...with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs .... his height was exalted above all the... | |
 | 1855 - 614 sider
...of it " (Dan. iv. 10—12). And Ezekiel had in like manner described 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. The waters made him great, the deep... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 508 sider
...to himself. Thus in Etek. zzxi. 3, the Assyrian king is compared with a magnificent cedar: " 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." Comp. also Ezek. xvii. 22 — 21,... | |
 | 1855 - 972 sider
...speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Behold, 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. The waters made him great, the deep... | |
 | Robert Ferguson - 1855 - 120 sider
...painting, and the colours which he employs are of the most pleasing yet most impressive kind: — "Behold, 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. The waters made him great, the deep... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing, George William Curtis - 1856 - 650 sider
...and which the Prophet Ezekiel so finely used as a simile in describing a great empire; — "Behold, 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... | |
 | John Kitto - 1856 - 750 sider
...unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? 3 Behold, reth for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever. 4 and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters "made him great, the... | |
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... the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs... 
