...ancient days, Whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn? ' Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the crowning city, ' Whose merchants are princes, ' Whose...traffickers are the honourable of the earth? ' The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, To stain the pride of all glory, To bring into contempt all the honourable...

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...city whose antiquity is of ancient days ? " Well may the traveller ask that question of " the crowned city whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." In the old time, exalted by her pomp and wealth, Tyre said : — " I am a god, I sit in the seat of...

...streets thereof." Nor was this appreciation of the great city confined to the towns of Judea. " Tyre, the crowning • city, whose merchants are princes, whose...traffickers are the honourable of the earth ; the harvest of the river is her revenue, and she is a mart of nations " ; or, again : " Thy borders are...

...imply that Phoenicia had ceased to be prosperous. The prophet could still speak of Tyre as : " The crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ". 745. But Tiglath-Pileser III. attempted to draw the bonds closer, and compelled various cities in...

...ready hearing. Tyre was a magnificent city — " the crowning city," the prophet Isaiah styles her,* " whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." " O thou," says the prophet Ezekiel,t " that dwellest at the entry of the sea, which art the merchant...

...Conflict with the Genoese — Loss of Constantinople " Who hath taken this counsel against . . . the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." — Isaiah. THE Easter of 1214, falling in a year of general peace and prosperity in Italy, was celebrated...

...ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn ? Who hath purposed this 8 against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth ? The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride 9 of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honourable...

...glorious throne to his father's of Eiiakim. house. XXIII Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth 1 15 XXV And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all 20 people a feast of fat things,...

...with the Genoese — Loss of Constantinople " Who hath taken this counsel against . . . the crown ing city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth." — Isaiah. '"THE Easter of 1214, falling in a year of general peace and prosperity in Italy, was celebrated...