...King OH his holy hill of Zion, so it is a time wherein he remarkably fulfils that in Isa. xxviii. 16. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation. Which the two apostles Peter and Paul (1 Pet. ii....

...be broken and spared. Wherefore, hear the word of the Lord, ye Scornful Men that rule this people ! Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with Death, and with Hell are we at agreement ! Your Covenant with Death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Hell shall' not stand. For your...

...people: Ixvi. 10. Ezek. xvi. 3, 13. Joel iii. 17. Zech. i. 14. viii. 3. &c. xiii. 1. Isai. xxviii. 16, Thus saith the. Lord God, Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, ¿чс.; Ixi. 3. Joel, ii. 32. Obad. 17, But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, &-c. ver. 21. 24....

...agreement, and to take shelter in their refuge. According to their confidence and expectation they said ; " We have made a covenant with death, and with...refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves." Thus an overflowing scourge was expected ; but it was to come on others, they were safe. They had made...

...Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 1 5 wehid ourselves: 16 If Therefore thus saith the Lord SOD, Behold, I lay in Zien fer a foundation a...

...and the iniquities of your fathers, which have blasphemed me upon the hills k. Because ye have said, We have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves ; therefore the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies ; and the waters shall overflow the hidingplace '. And...

...openly defy the terrors of the Almighty, proclaiming by their actions, the belief of their hearts to be, "when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us." But hear the answer of the Lord, ye who thus provoke him to anger: "when the overflowing scourge shall...

...verse which the New Testament has taught us to regard as a direct prediction of our Saviour's coming: " Therefore thus saith the Lord .God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make haste." After...

...in their season ; though blessed were they only to whom the darker portions of them did not apply. " Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation stone a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation ; he that believeth shall not make...

...see the day? But the overflowing scourge comes too near them. They thought themselves secure ; they said, " We have made a covenant with death, and with...shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we nave made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves." But God answers them as follows;...