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the oubles. I have conmianded my Kiinctiried one?, have also called nty mighty ones for mine angefi ^weu them that rejcice in my highness. The noise of a multitude in ttic mouiitams, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gntheri^d together : t)ie Lord of Imsts mu4- tereth the host of the battle. They come from a £ir country, from tbe end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, lo de- stroy the whole land/' (ver. 2— 60 The^c names, *' my ^anctiticd ones,— *cveii tbetn that rejoice in my highness," I can apply only to the Jewish thbes; and if any will apply Iheoi to the idola- trous Medes and Persiaiut, 1 at>k when did ih^y do those mighty and voiderful thwg» wbiclf ace 1112 Tll£ KIXOS 0¥ TUir k-AST, [i^M. described from rer. 7 to ver. 14; or were these things accompLislicd in these times, orar^ they yet aiccom- plifthed t Surely they hat^e not yet been accum- plUhecl u|>mi tlie earth; aitd tiierefore the inntru* meats by wlium thvy arc to be accomplished have not yetbeensummonedto the work: aBd that which the Medeft did, was only the Kicrn anda&fiiinuiceof it upon that uicked eity, which in tlioso dayi^dtd most grievously oppress the people of the Lord, But to put it heyond all pojisibiiity of doubt, that it is by the peiiple of Israel the Lord is to accomplish (he destruction of the powem of Babylon, after these have of themselves destroy- ed the drunken aud adulterous woman which long sat upon thirtn, and intoxicated theni with her copf we finally refer to that famous prophecy which is written in the irlli chapter of Micah, be- ginning at the 6lh verse : " In that day/' that is the day of the exaltation of the mountain of the bouse of the Lord» " saitb the Lord, will 1 assem* ble her that haltcth, and 1 will i^thcr her that is driven outt and her that 1 have afflicted/' This latter must be the Ten Tribes of Israel, who were driven far away, and very sorely afflicted ; and that former i»tisi therefore be the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, who were wounded and imprison* cd, but not utterly ejected and cost out. " Atid 1 will make her that halted, a rcmuani," which we now behold her ; " and be that was Ciut off a. strong nation," which we do nut yet, but [ beUcfa shall soon, behold accomplished of the Ten Tribes. " And the Lord »hall reign over them in Alounl Zioo from htnceforth and for ever;'* over Israel and Judah, now happily uiutcd in one, and settled ifi their own land. *' And unto tbcc, O tower N ^1 Ob mt TLN THIBSS.