...hand of a cruel lord ; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. 6 And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up:...

...question, how this could be shown, I said, it may be shown from the following places in the Word : — " And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle in the brooks shall lament." (Isa. -!•]!'...

...alluded to, and quote Is. xix. 5, where, among the judgments pronounced upon Egypt, it is declared, "And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up," the sea and the river being apparently synonymous. If this view be correct, and Forster's site of the...

...clave the rock, and rivers gushed out," Psalm fxxviii. 15, 16, 20; Psalm cv. 41. "And the waters shall1 fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up," Isaiah xix. 5 — 7; xlii. 15; 1.2; Nahumi. 4; Psalm cvii. 33 ; Job xiv. 10, 11. Jesus said, If any...

...hand of a cruel lord ; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts. " And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. " And they shall turn the rivers far away ; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up...

...defence would be gone: Isa. xix. 4, &.c., " The Egyptians will 1 give over into the hand of a cruel lord ; and the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up, and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up, and the reeds and flags »hall wither ; every...

...prophecy by Isaiah, let us place an extract from the Journal of the Rev. GS Drew. Isaiah xix. 5, 6 : 'And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. And they shall turn the rivers far away ; and the brooksof defence shall be emptied and dried up :...

...xix., the same figure is again used with respect to Egypt, and there is a description of judgment. " The waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up." This judgment includes, too, " the brooks of defence," " the reeds and flags," " and everything sown...

...two that Herodotus distinguishes as in origin works of roan. This change was prophesied by Isaiah : " And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up" (xix, 5). The prophets not only tell us of the future of the Nile ; they speak of it as it was in their...

...river, in the grandeur of its overflow, brings up before the prophetic eye a vision of the sea — " The waters shall fail from the sea,, and the river shall be wasted and dried up." (Isa. xix. 5.) So Nineveh, which had nothing maritime about it but its river, is thus compared with...