Fondare 109 Risultati per: Trees
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)
Tall pine-trees then shall grow where valerian grew, and myrtles spring from yonder nettle-beds; great glory the Lord shall win, such a blazon as eternity cannot efface. (Isaiah 55, 13)
that once built houses for others to occupy, planted what others should enjoy; my people shall live to the age of trees and see the work of their own hands wear out before them. (Isaiah 65, 22)
Down with yonder trees, the Lord of hosts says, and build siege-works about Jerusalem; here is a city must be called to account for all the oppression that is harboured there. (Jeremiah 6, 6)
Idols cunningly plated as palm-trees,✻ yet dumb as they, and men must carry them to and fro, for movement they have none! To these give no reverence; they can neither mar nor make thee. (Jeremiah 10, 5)
Water nourished it, water came up from the depth beneath to sustain it, washed about its roots and parted into runnels to feed the trees around. (Ezekiel 31, 4)
How it echoed through the world, the crash of his fall! He too, like all mortal things, was for the earth at last; comfort for those others that were brought to earth like himself, trees of Eden like himself, so noble, so fair, so well watered! (Ezekiel 31, 16)
And thou, in thy greatness and glory among Eden’s trees so like him! Yet thou, like other Eden trees, must come down low as earth can bring thee; and the sword shall level thee with the uncircumcised in death. (Pharao is meant, and Pharao’s retinue, the Lord God says.✻ ) (Ezekiel 31, 18)
Wild trees their fruit, the earth its crops shall afford; undisturbed they shall dwell on their own lands, acknowledging my power at last, my power that severed strap of yoke, rescued them from the tyrant’s hand. (Ezekiel 34, 27)
and slanting windows in the guard-chambers and in the thickness of the walls that separated them, all round the gateway; the hall, too, within had its windows all round, and there was a pattern of palm-trees on the pillars between them. (Ezekiel 40, 16)
The design was of alternate cherubs and palm-trees, and each cherub had two faces, (Ezekiel 41, 18)
carved cherubs and palm-trees on each wall from ground level to the height of the door’s lintel. (Ezekiel 41, 20)
