Ezekiel 31:10-18

Nothing can be more highly figurative than what is here said, and nothing more beautiful and exact in description. Who is this mighty Monarch of Assyria, or of Egypt, but the proud foes of Israel? and who shall be our peace when the Assyrian comes into our land, but Jesus? Micah 5:5. I charge it upon the Reader's mind, as I pray for grace to keep the same in my own, that in all the destruction of nations, the Lord hath an eye to his people. Not indeed, as Moses told Israel, for their righteousness, but for the Lord's glory, and to magnify his covenant love and faithfulness through every dispensation. Reader! it is most blessed to see this, and to trace it in all the several parts of the word of God. Deuteronomy 9:4.