...shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces." (Isa. xiii. 21, 22.) " The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with...dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby." (Jer. li. 42, 43.) And now I think I need not say much in the way of lessons on this story, dear children,...

...neither angel, nor church, nor city — when the great city would become ' heaps, a desolation, and a dry land, and a wilderness ; a land wherein no man...dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.' Once it had an idolatrous temple, 1 Travels, p. 150. celebrated for its magnificence, as one of the...

...become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astouishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. The sea is come up upon Babylon : she is covered with...dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby." (Jer. li. 13, 26, 29, 37, 42, 43.) The vast range of prophecy concerning this nation and city has compelled...

...the annual overflowing of the Kuphrates : no son of man doth pass thereby ; the sea or river is come , And the mourner will sweetly obey 1 There had whispered a voice, 't Birs Nimrod, or the temple of Belus, which was standing after the beginning of the Christian era, isstilltobedistinguis...

...without an inhabitant." — " I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry." — " The sea is come upon Babylon ; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof." All these predictions, even those that appear contradictory, have been literally fulfilled. The testimonies...

...become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant. The sea is come up upon Babylon : she is covered with...dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby." Jer. li, 13, 26, 29, 37, 42, 43. The vast range of prophecy concerning this nation and city has compelled...

...there would be in Ephesus neither church nor city, — when the great metropolis would become "heaps, a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness; a land...dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby." Once it had an idolatrous temple, celebrated throughout the world for its magnificence, and the mountains...

...complete desolation of the city is appropriately represented by an image taken from the inundation : " The sea is come up upon Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof." || So the Assyrian invasion of Judaea is aptly pictured by a reference to the overflowing stream :...

...also fulfilled another prophecy, which had seemed in some measure to contradict the former: "Their cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth." The Arab pitches his tent and feeds his flocks where pasture can be found ; but at Babylon there is...

...become heaps, a dwelling-place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant. The sea is come up upon Babylon : she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Her cities arc a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son...