...also, as the prophet Isaiah declares, shall this proverb be taken up against the king of Babylon. " HOw hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased...staff of the wicked and the sceptre of the rulers." In the vision also, the Apostle beheld the martyred saints clothed in white raiment — " White robes...

...shipped, and some dying for want. with hope, that He who can make the oppressor to cease, who ha.« oft " broken the staff of the wicked and the sceptre of the rulers," will not suffer the commencement of good at Abbeokuta to be crushed by the wasteful agency of the Dahoinans....

...rising (se'et)" (Lev. 15:9) alludes to Babylon, since it is said, "Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon and say : How hath the oppressor ceased! The exactness of gold (madhebah) ceased!" (Isa. 14:4). "A scab (fappahat)" alludes to Media which reared...

...one. Isaiah prophesied the fall of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon in the following striking words. "That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of...hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! . . . Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee,...

...sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 f That thou shall ܃ 5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people...

...God. But the promise is that His King, His beloved Son, will take unto Himself His power and reign. "The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers." Isaiah 14:5 Shakespeare expressed the sentiment that "Time s glory is to calm contending kings." Time,...

...finest specimens of Hebrew, and indeed of ancient, composition. 4. That thou shall raise this song over the king of Babylon and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the golden (city) ceased ! The Vav at the beginning continues the construction from njni in ver. 8, and can only be expressed in our...

...sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, "That thou shah take up this proverb against the king of Babylon,...staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers." — ISAIAH 14:3-5. sion." "The Father doth not sow fear, but pours forth persua— ECHOES FROM THE...

...mighty man, the man of war, the judge, the prophet, the prudent, the ancient," &.c. Isaiah iii. 1, 2. " The Lord hath broken the staff" of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers." " Moab is spoiled ; and all ye that are about him, bemoan him, and all ye that know his name, say,...

...from the beginning" and "the Father of Liars" (John 8:44), As stated in Isaiah 14:5-20: "Yahweh has broken the staff of the -wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers (sovereignty of the rule of man and his God, Satan or Zeus). He that smote the people in wrath with...