...Medes and Persians in vast numbers, to overthrow Babylon, it is said, in the 5 1st chapter, 42nd verse, "The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitudes of the waves thereof." In the 26th chapter of Ezekiel, the third verse, the same figure...

...of flowing to her any longer as tributary streams, would all at once overflow and destroy her: — "The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with...of the waves thereof. Her cities are a desolation, &c." — "The waters shall not flow together any more unto him. (Bel.)" — "The Lord hath spoiled...

...36. " The ground, at the time we passed it," records Rich, " was perfectly dry." The prophet says, " The sea is come up upon Babylon : She is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.' Jer. li. 42. Thus apparently contradicting his previous denunciation. But the prophet does not intend...

...instead of flowing any longer to her as tributary streams, would all at once overflow and destroy her: " The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with...of the waves thereof; her cities are a desolation." — " The •Rev. ivji. 15. 'waters shall not flow any more unto Bel." — " The Lord hath spoiled...

...become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness...land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of mau pass thereby."t * Isaiah, xhr., 12, 23. t Jeremiah, li., 37, 43. CHAPTER VI. Ruins of Babybm described....

...waves thereof. burned with fire, and the men of 43 Her cities are a desolation, war are affrighted. a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, out of his mouth that which he neither doth any son of man pass hath swallowed up : and the nathereby....

...represent spirit, cause of life and action. In Jer. li. 42d — 44th and the 53d, we read—" The MO is come up upon Babylon : she is covered with the...wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither does any son of man pass thereby. And I will punish Bell in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of...

...annual overflowing of the Euphrates; "no son of man doth pass thereby ; the sea, or river, is come upon Babylon, she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof." At that season also "large deposits of the waters," as Sir Robert Ker Porter, in his vivid description...

...of the Tigris, from Bagdad to Bassora, and the words of the prophet are fulfilled to the letter, " Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness ; a land where no man dwelleth, neither doth anyman pass thereby." — See RICH'S Memoir. PRESENT APPEARANCE...

...1.) " I will punish the LAND of the Chaldeans, and make it perpetual desolations." (Jer. xxv. 12.) " Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a LAND where no man dwelleth, neither doth son of man pass thereby." (Jer. li. 43.) " I will send unto Babylon,...