| International society for the evangelization of the Jews - 1850 - 876 Seiten
...— 9, which, for richness and beauty of imagery, is not surpassed by anything in the Bible : — " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches. And with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; And his top was among the thick houghs. The waters... | |
| Edward J. Young - 1992 - 556 Seiten
...will be so few in number that a child can note them. As elsewhere the Assyrian is compared to Lebanon. "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs" (Ezek. 31:3).... | |
| William E. Wallace - 1995 - 614 Seiten
...Knowledge, receives a stirring chapter, for the Lord tells Ezekiel (xxxi, -passim} to speak thus to Pharaoh: "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; . . . The waters made him great, the deep set him... | |
| Robert Silverberg - 1997 - 420 Seiten
...Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget! — KIPLING, Recessional 3. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4. The waters... | |
| Northrop Frye - 2003 - 818 Seiten
...could vanish almost overnight was naturally a favourite theme of prophecy. Ezekiel says, in 31:3[, 5]: “Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.... Therefore... | |
| James Hastings - 2004 - 512 Seiten
...cherish Our limbs benumb'd.' This is the meaning of the word in Ezk 31*, its only occurrence in AV, ' Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud' (Heb. tshn, a thicket or forest; LXX omits ; Vulg. frondibus nemorosus). J.... | |
| Northrop Frye, Jay Macpherson - 2004 - 492 Seiten
...could vanish almost overnight was naturally a favourite theme of prophecy. Ezekiel says, in 31:3[, 5]: "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. ... Therefore... | |
| Jonathan E. Ruopp, Jonathan Ruopp Sr. - 2005 - 322 Seiten
...man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs, 4 The waters... | |
| Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2005 - 626 Seiten
...of man, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude;' Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 31:3 'Behold, the Assyrian (was) a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 31:4 The waters... | |
| H. E. Eickleberry, Jr. - 2005 - 288 Seiten
...of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his multitude: 'Whom are you like in your greatness? ""Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and it was high in stature, and his top was among the thick boughs. ""The... | |
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