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iniquities of the nations have caused
their overthrow.

The prophet of the Highest, in
speaking of Babylon, saith, behold
the day of'the Lord cometh, cruel both
with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the
land desolate, and He shall destroy the
sinners thereof out of it," And in
speaking of its final overthrow, he uses
this very graphic language, "And
Babylon, the glory of Kingdoms, the
beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency,
shall be as when God overthrow Sodom
and Gomorah. IT shall never be in
habited /; neither shalt it be dwelt in
from generation to generation nei-
Their shall the Arabian pitch his tent
there neither shall the shepherds
make their folds there. But the wild
beast of the desert shall be there and
their houses shall be full of doleful
creatures and owls shall dwell
there and satyrs shall dance there
And the wild beasts of the island shall
cry in their desolate houses, and drag
ons in their pleasant palaces; and her
time is near to come, and her days
shall not be prolonged" The same
prophet in speaking of Egypt, that
once renowned nation, says of Zoan
which was one of her chief cities where
the King and the court frequently re-
sided, "Surely the princes of Zoan
are fools, the council of the wise coun-
sellers Of Pharoah is become british !;
how say ye unto Pharoah, / am the
son of the wise, the son of ancient
Kings. Where are they Where are
the wise, and let them tell thee now,
and let them know what the Lord of
hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.
The princes Of Zoan are become fools
the princes of Noph are deceived. they
have also seduced Egypt, even they
that are the stay of the tribes thereof"
Here is presented the cause, and then
we have the manner in these words,
" Behold the Lord rideth upon a swift
cloud, and shall come into Egypt, and
the idols shall be moved at his presence,
and the heart of Egypt shall melt in
the midst Of it; and I will set the
Egyptians against the Egyptians, and
they shall fight every one against his
brother, and every one against his
neighbor, city against city, and king
dom against kingdom. There is
Tyre, Of which Shabor says, :" It was
the greatest and most ancient city of
the .Phenicians This city lifted.
itself up against God, and it would
seem by what the prophet Isaiah says
in chapter %, 50, That it was be-
cause of her pride she was hum!led."
He asks, Who has taken council
against Tyre the growing city ? whose
merchants are princes, whose tralick-
ers are the most honorable of the earth?
The Lord of hosts, nath prepared to
stain the pride of all glory, and TO
bring into contempt all the honorable
of the earth"
The eye Of God not only rested upon
these nations and their cities, but ,Jer-
usalcm and the whole of Judea was
made desolate as with a beasom of
destruction for their sins Their his
tory, their crimes, and their end, stand
as monument on the pathway of ma
tions; and on this monument is writ
ten by the finger Of God, in a legible
and distinct sentence, Thas the gull
ty cannot go UNPUBLISHED. If any
nation ever filled up the measure of
their cup, it was this nation; and if
signal vengeance marked nation, it
was this nation and if any nation
ever drank the bitter dregs of wrath,
it was this nation. And the reason
me may assign for so much of indigna-
tion as came upon them, was because
of their superior privileges and bles-
sings that God had conferred upon
them. To them, was term of calam-
ity, such as had not been known since
the world began.
The judgments of Heaven was stay
ed that Jonah predicted against MIN
even for short time. In few years
we hear Nahum lifting his prophetic
voice against her, saying, "Wo unto
the bloody city, it is full of lies and
robbery, &c. / am against thee saith
the Lord of hosts. y In about one hun
dred years this city was overthrown by
Nabopolossan and Astyages, King of
Babylon and King of the Modes. TO
the extent of its overthrow you may
read the Researches Of Layard.
He makes this city Of the dead, with
the ruins of its former granduer to
stand before you to testify Of the pre-
diction of the prophet, as well as to
impress noaD the nations of the earth
that God is just, and that He now
"layeth justice to the line aud judg-
ment to the plumet.o
No genuine voice Of prophecy has
gone forth against this nation yet
there are prophets, and many have