The Star of Prophecy: Or, First-Born of Shinar
by William Robertson Aikman (9780217608237)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CANTO THE FIRST. Milleniums two, and centuries four,? Whelmed in that vast devoid of shore, The past eternity,?are gone Since Bukhtnuzzar in Babylon Held sway: then Judah, wise too late, By Euphrates sat desolate Her bards?the song of praise unsung? Their harps upon the willows hung; To sight like weird lutes which the breeze Alone may wake to harmonies. Indignant Heaven her bolts had flung At Salem's pride ;f and not a tongue Nebuchadnezzar (oriental). + The pride of Jerusalem here spoken of is best described in the pathetic words of Scripture:?" Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion Of all her minstrels dared, for shame, To breathe the God of Abram's fame: His well-earned curse had quench'd the boast Of Judah to the uttermost; And dust, the serpent's food, had placed Within their Hebrew lips debased They gnaw their very tongues for pain; Their neck, impatient, loathes the rein; Their bleeding lips, gall'd by the bit, Drink their own blood?no help for it; on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small...

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