 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...mother-country, as represented by Tyre, was " replenished and made glorious in the midst of the sea" — "whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." But their voyages extended far beyond the range of their colonies. They are generally supposed to have... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1852 - 280 pages
...Pho3nicians, now foreboding the march of the Babylonian king, who had " taken counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth," at all times were precluded from the desire of conquest by their divided states,* formidable neighbours,... | |
 | Jean [comms. on the Bible] Calvin - 1852 - 498 pages
...days ? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. 8. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? 9. The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 46 pages
...it " the joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days," " the merchant city, with strongholds," " the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose...traffickers are the honourable of the earth." Isaiah xxiii. And Ezekiel calls it, " die abode of seafaring men, the renowned city, strong in the sea, whose terror... | |
 | Susan Warner - 1853 - 868 pages
...days ? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. Who hath taken this counsel against lyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? The Is. xvli. 7, 8. 264 FOR HIS OWN GLOBY. The highways lie waste, the wayfaring-man ceaseth : he... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 184 pages
...ancient days ? whose feet did carry her afar off to sojourn ? 8 Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? 9 The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson - 1884 - 328 pages
...use." In predicting the final overthrow of Tyre, the prophet Isaiah speaks of that ancient place as " the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." This description comes to be naturally applicable to the famous countries, cities, and merchants of... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1885 - 810 pages
...organization. The "strong city," Tyre, is mentioned in Justina x\x. 29. In Jsaiah xxiii., Tyre is described as "the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." " He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms." The fate of Kabylon is pointed at... | |
 | 1885 - 558 pages
...ancient days, whose feet carried her afar 4.' 8 off to sojourn? Who hath purposed this against Tyre, * the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of 9 the earth ? The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to "stain the pride of all glory, to bring into •... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1888 - 664 pages
...the name, Canaan refers to the Phoenicians who dwelt on the sea-coast (Zeph. ii. 5; Matt. xv. 22), "whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth" (Isa. xxiii. 8). Compare 2 Chr. ii. 7, and Ezek. xxviii. 3-5, where of " the prince of Tyre " it is... | |
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The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth. 
