Harrison, Jane Ellen: Introductory studies in Greek art (London: Unwin, 1902)

PHCENICIA.

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time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the
depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy
company in the midst of thee shall fall. All the inhabi-
tants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their
kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their
countenance. The merchants among the people shall
hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shall be
any more.” (Ezekiel xxvii.)
Even the prophet’s gloomy foreboding seems lost for
awhile; in the glow and colour of the picture he con-
templates again and again he is caught away in spirit
from the judgment he is fated to denounce, and he cries
afresh to the king of Tyrus, “ Thou sealest up the sum,
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in
Eden the garden of God ; every precious stone was thy
covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl,
the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,and the
carbuncle, and gold : the workmanship of thy tabrets
and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that
thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that
covereth ; and I have set thee so ; thou wast upon the
holy mountain of God ; thou hast walked up and down
in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou was perfect in
thy ways from the day thou wast created, till iniquity
was found in thee.”
We know how Ezekiel expected that the judgment
he foretold would fall by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar