...man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters...

...reference to himself. Thus in Etek. zzxi. 3, the Assyrian king is compared with a magnificent cedar: " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs." Comp. also...

...lively painting, and the colours which he employs are of the most pleasing yet most impressive kind: — "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters...

...was fed of it " (Dan. iv. 10—12). And Ezekiel had in like manner described the Assyrian empire : " Behold, the AsSyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters...

...man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude ; Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? 3 rcy endureth for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now say, that his me with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters...

...were filled with rubbish — after which they grew no more. And we remembered the words of Ezekiel, "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and a shadowing shroud. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high. His boughs were multiplied,...

...Solomon, and which the Prophet Ezekiel so finely used as a simile in describing a great empire; — "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. His boughs...

...living flame from off the altar, depicts its glory in language such as inspiration can alone supply. " Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters...

...cedar: " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature, and his top was among the thick bougbs." Comp. also Ezek. xvii. 22 — 24, where " the high tree and the green tree" refer probably...

...chapter of the prophet Ezekiel suggested these images to Shakespeare. [" Thus yields the cedar."]—" Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs. * * " All...