"For thus said the Lord GOD of Israel unto me,--Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it: and they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them. To wit,--Jerusalem and the Cities of Judæa and the Kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse: as it is at this day. _And all the Kings of Tyrus_, and all the Kings of Sidon,--and _the Kings of the Isles which are_ BEYOND _the Sea_." [xxv.] Now "_the Sea_" mentioned, means (as it does throughout the Bible) the _Mediterranean_, and especially when Tyrus is written of,--several proofs of this are found in the Book of EZEKIEL. "It (Tyrus) shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of _the Sea_." "Then all the princes of _the Sea_ shall come down from their thrones," &c. "How art thou destroyed, that was inhabited of sea-faring men,--the renowned City,--which was strong in _the Sea_," &c. "Now shall the Isles tremble in the day of thy fall: yea, the Isles that are _in_ [not "beyond"] _the Sea_, shall be troubled at thy _departure_." When Pharaoh's fatal Sea is spoken of, it is called by its name in full,--_i. e. The Red Sea_:--the Asphaltine Sea covering the crime-smitten Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, is called _the Dead Sea_,--and so of others,--but "_the Sea_" defines it to be the Mediterranean. The Islands referred to by JEREMIAH are stated to be "_beyond the Sea_"--_i. e._ Isles beyond the mouth of the Mediterranean, reached by passing through the Straits of Gibraltar; and the language, therefore, alludes distinctly to the Fortunate Isles discovered by the Tyrians during the voyage. "The Kings of Tyrus" were, also, by right of discovery the actual "Kings of the Isles which are beyond the Sea." That these are the Islands referred to, may be gathered from the fact, that the last quotation from EZEKIEL proves that the Isles of the Mediterranean are spoken of as being "_in_ the Sea," in direct contradistinction to those "_beyond_ the Sea." The same defined locality is found in ISAIAH. "Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires [Hebrew, "valleys"] even the name of the LORD GOD of Israel, in the Isles _of the Sea_." [xxiv. 15.]