Fondare 117 Risultati per: Cedar Of Lebanon
In thy name, these servants of thine have hurled insults at the Lord. It was thy dream that thou hadst scaled, with those chariots of thine, the mountain heights, the slopes of Lebanon; and now thou wouldst cut down its tall cedars, its noble fir-trees, till thou couldst reach the very summit of the ascent, the garden its woods enclosed. (Isaiah 37, 24)
His altar-hearth Lebanon itself could not feed, victims could not yield enough for his burnt-sacrifice. (Isaiah 40, 16)
I will plant those wastes with cedar and acacia, myrtle and olive; rear, in that desert soil, fir and elm and box besides; (Isaiah 41, 19)
Let the wilderness, now, lift up its head,✻ and the desert cities; the men of Cedar shall have villages to dwell in.✻ Give praise, then, rock-dwellers; the mountain-tops shall ring with their cries. (Isaiah 42, 11)
For such ends, cedar must fall, ilex and oak be cut away from their place in the forest; for this, pine-tree was planted where rains should nourish it. (Isaiah 44, 14)
Into thee all the herds of Cedar shall be driven, the rams of Nabaioth shall be thy victims; gifts at my altar accepted, to make the fame of my temple more famous yet. (Isaiah 60, 7)
All the beauty of Lebanon shall be brought to thee, fir-wood and box-wood and pine-wood mingled together to adorn this place, my sanctuary; I will have honour paid to this, the resting-place of my feet. (Isaiah 60, 13)
Sail the seas till you reach the isles of Cethim; send envoys out to the wilds of Cedar; look for yourselves and make earnest enquiry, to know if the like was ever heard! (Jeremiah 2, 10)
What, shall the snows of Lebanon melt from those wild peaks,✻ shall they be dried up at their source, those icy torrents that flow down from it? (Jeremiah 18, 14)
On the royal house of Juda this is the Lord’s sentence: Growth I found here once, generous as in Galaad or on Lebanon’s height; now I have sworn to make a desert of it, no place for the haunts of men.✻ (Jeremiah 22, 6)
A fine house I will make of it, says he, and wide rooms in it! Here he will throw out a window, there he will panel a wall with cedar, and paint it vermilion. (Jeremiah 22, 14)
Art thou hoping for a long reign, that thou shouldst challenge comparison with the cedar?✻ Thy father was one that ate and drank at his ease, gave every man his just due, and was content; (Jeremiah 22, 15)
