| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 764 pages
...shout against thee. 15 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established 1 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken : the nations have drunken of her wine ; therefore the nations are mad. 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed : howl for... | |
| Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...he says, " How hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased !" Jeremiah, 51 : 7, calls Babylon a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken. The splendor of Nebuchadnezzar's conquests, and the gorgeousness of his capital, are well known. In the... | |
| Charles Simmons - Bible - 1844 - 552 pages
...they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink. Jer. 51. 7. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. Dan. 5. 1. Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a... | |
| John Russell Hurd - Bible - 1844 - 860 pages
...maniac. Something like this seems to be implied in the language of the prophet, " Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken ; the nations have drunken of her wine, therefore the nations are mad," Jer. li. 7 ; — they have been deceived into the belief... | |
| Thomas Newton (bp. of Bristol.) - 1845 - 224 pages
...abomination and spiritual fornication.' It is an image copied from Jeremiah, li. 7. ' Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken ;' and in that excellent little moral treatise, entitled the Table of Cebes, there is a like picture... | |
| Protestant association - 1847 - 424 pages
...hasteth as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not it is for his life" — though "Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken " — " they are drunken, but not with wine ; they stagger, but not with strong drink." " For the Lord... | |
| Thomas Whittemore - Bible - 1848 - 402 pages
...of the revelator in the verse before us seems to have been taken from Jeremiah. " Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken : the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad ;" li. 7. Such, evidently, was the passage which suggested... | |
| Thomas Whittemore - Bible - 1848 - 400 pages
...cup in her hand full of abominatic ns and filthiness o. her fornication : 5 And upon her forehead was cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken : the nations have drunken of her wine ; therefore the nations are mad ;" Jer. li. 7. The cup agrees exactly with the description... | |
| 1849 - 632 pages
...also intimating that her punishment is a consequent of the nation's drunkenness. " Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken : the nations have drunken of her wine : therefore the nations are mad." (Jer. li. 7.) What may the wine of Babylon's fornication... | |
| Benjamin Wills Newton - Bible - 1849 - 164 pages
...come, and the measure of great whore, that sitteth thy covetousness. JER. II. 7. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, that made all the earth drunken. upon many waters. REv. XVII. 4. Having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations. JER. LI. 7.... | |
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