The Old Testament in Verse 13 (Verses 178 -180)

178

178

XXV 26

And yet were the Israelites conquered by dread,

The Israelites are conquered

Lamenta-

And yet into Egypt the Israelites fled!

 by dread and flee

tion of 

And then was fair Judah grown over with briars,

 to Egypt, carrying

Jeremiah

The saddest lamentings, the sad Jeremiah’s!

Jeremiah with them.

 P  – Prophets

Jer. XLVI

And each of these prophets the conquest foretold,

587

 Jeremiah foretells the con-

13-26

Of Egypt and treasures of silver and gold!

quest of Egypt by Nebuchad-nezzar. 

Ezek. XIX

For were they not given the king as his hire

572

Ezekial foretells it. 

17-21

For ably besieging and conquering Tyre.

Egypt is conquered.

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179

179

The kingdom of Judah was punished for sin,

Judah also suffers for

As Israel’s kingdom before her had been;

her sins, prophets were

As though there were kings who had idols abhorred

also raised up to repent

There yet had been people who idols adored.

them, but they continued

And the prophets the greatest, the latest were sent,

in their wickedness

To urge and command them to pray and repent!

till carried captives

Job II

Although there were prophets we earlier see,

to Assyria And Babylon.

11-13

As patient old Job and his comforters three!

One of these prophets

And there were false prophets as prophets of Baal,

was Elijah, who proved

I Ki.

But the true, not the false, were the ones to prevail!

by fire from Heaven that

XVIII

And Elijah was zealous, Elijah was true,

Jehovah was the true

40

And many the prophets of Baal that he slew!

God, and slew the

2 Ki.

And Elijah, like Enoch, had never offended!

prophets of Baal.

II 11-14

And Elijah, like Enoch, to Heaven ascended!

He was taken up to

I Ki. XIX

And of that ascension has Elijah told us?

Heaven by a chariot

19-20

Elijah’s the mantle, that fell on his shoulders!

and horses of fire and his

2 Ki. II

And after Elisha the little one flocked,

mantle fell upon Elisha.

23-25

Elisha’s the baldness the little ones mocked;

At the word of Elisha two

IV 1-7

And “Go up, thou bald head” the little ones cried;

bears tore 42 children who

V

And bears tore the children that rev’rence denied.

mocked him. 

XIII

But the leper was healed, and the widow was fed!

He fed the widow, healed Naaman, the leper,

20-21

Elisha’s the body that quickened the dead!

and his dead body quickened the dead.

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180

180

1 Ki.

And after Elijah by ravens was fed,

A fish swallows Jonah

XVII

But ere dead Elisha had quickened the dead,

and casts him upon Nineveh’s

6

Of Jonah we learn, of his most wicked wish,

shore, where his God reproves

Jonah

When he had gone in and out of the fish!

him through a gourd-vine for

I

Of the gourd that went in and went out of his sight,

being annoyed at none of the

II

Each time in the very short space of a night!

Ninevites being destroyed.

III

Of how God reproved him when he was annoyed

At none of the Ninevites being destroyed.

Of Joel, of Amos, of brief Obadiah,

Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Isaiah, Hosea, Micah, and Nahum were contemporary prophets, that is to say, lived about the same time, though concerning Obadiah all are not agreed.

With warnings, with tidings, with prophecies dire;

Isaiah, the son of Amoz is called the evangelical prophet because he prophesied so much

As well as Hosea with prophecies great,

and so clearly concerning Christ and His Kingdom.

Who witnessed the sealing of Israel’s fate,

He speaks of Christ under the figure of a lamb.

For Daniel, Ezekial and sad Jeremiah,

Habakkuk, Jephaniah, and Jeremiah were also contemporaries.  Jeremiah, Ezekial and Daniel

All lived in the time of Captivity dire;

being particularly prophets of the Captivity,

Though we earlier hear of the sad Jeremiah,

Jeremiah prophesying at Jerusalem, Ezekial at the River Chebar, and Daniel in Babylon.

And the book that Jehoiakim burnt in the fire,

When Daniel “The image” so clearly portrayed,

Whilst a captive Daniel most

And answered a “Question” that others dismayed.

clearly portrays the dream of

That Question concerning “The showing” a dream,

the image that Nebuchadnezzar

Than which to interpret much stranger doth seem,

had himself forgotten.

And later Ezekial a famine displayed

Ezekial portrayed a famine

With a pan, and a slate and a fort that he made.

with a pan, a slate, and a little fort.

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And then we have Habakkuk, then Zephaniah,

And then there’s the “Weeping One” sad Jeremiah;

And just as Hosea, of prophecies great,

Had witnessed the sealing of Israel’s fate,

This prophet he witnessed the sealing of Judah

And with that sad knowledge has fully imbued us;

Ezek.

Whilst Ezekial depicted the coming despair,

V

By weighing, dividing and burning his hair.