...measureless sterility and forsaken greatness, he turns to those of joy, prosperity, and protection. " Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities : thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation. There the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams. The wilderness and the...

...blessed are depicted in images of surpassing beauty and grandeur. It is a peaceful and eternal city : " Look upon Zion the city of our solemnities : thine...neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." The Lord has embellished and defended it by wide and flowing rivers which surround it as a vast moat...

...the prophet exhorts us and says, " Look" (ah! look we may, hut our eyes will dazzle with the sight) " upon Zion, the city of our solemnities. Thine eyes...tabernacle that shall not be taken down ; not one of thy stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken; but there...

...and put together ; and we may justly apply to it what is said of a still more peculiar economy ; " Not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed,...neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." How should, therefore, every new guest that treads the stage of human life wish that he may weaken,...

...shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart," iii. 17. Again, in Isaiah : " Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities ; thine...neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken," xxxiii. 20; not to mention other passages, as Isaiah xxiv. 23, xxxvii. 32, Ixvi. 10—14, Zech. xii....

...shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart," iii. 17. Again, in Isaiah : " Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities ; thine...neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken," xxxiii. 20 ; not to mention other passages, as Isaiah xxiv. 23, xxxvii. 32, Ixvi. 10—14. Zech. xii....

...shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart," iii. 17. Again, in Isaiah : " Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities ; thine...neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken," xxxiii. 20; not to mention other passages, as Isaiah xxiv. 23, xxxvii. 32, Ixvi. 10—14. Zech. xii....

...not one of her nu-mbera should ever be moved, nor annoyed by an enemy. " Look upon Zion," soys be, " the city of our solemnities ! Thine eyes shall see...tabernacle that shall not be taken down : not one of the atakea thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall an; of the cocda thereof be broken. But of Israel...

...in thy tabernacle forever," Psalm Ixi. 4. " Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities, thine eye shall see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down," Isaiah xxxiii. 20. " Jehovah that spreadeth out the heavens as a tabernacle to dwell in," Isaiah xl....

...in thy tabernacle for ever," Psalm Ixi. 4. "Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities, thine eye shall see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down," Isaiah xxxiii. 20. "Jehovah that spreadeth out the heavens as a tabernacle to dwell in," Isaiah xl....