 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1911 - 648 pages
...4, 5, 7, and 9. Behold hee was a Cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing Shrowd, and of an high Stature, and his Top was among the thick Boughs. The Waters made him great, the Deep sett him up on high y with her Rivers running about his Plants.... | |
 | 1851 - 648 pages
...some years later was undoubtedly applicable to it now. " Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and •with a shadowing shroud,...high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants,... | |
 | James Moffatt - 1913 - 252 pages
...That every breath of heaven shaked itt." EZEK. xxxi. 3. Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and...high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. Compare Warwick's lament in the Third Part of King Henry VI. (Act v. Scene 2) :— " Thus yields the... | |
 | Andrew Bruce Davidson - 1916 - 486 pages
...to his multitude; Whom art thou like 3 in thy greatness? 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 1thick 4 boughs. The waters nourished him, the deep made him to grow : her rivers ran round about her... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1917 - 354 pages
...reincarnation. The image, at any rate, is found in Ezekiel: "Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud and...high stature, and his top was among the thick boughs" (Ezekiel xxxi. 3). When all is said and done, is it so very foolish, as we sit wool-gathering and drinking... | |
 | Helen A. Ballard - 1917 - 200 pages
...Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon With fair branches, And with a shadowing shroud, [114] And of an high stature; And his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, The deep set him up on high With her rivers running round about his plants,... | |
 | John Milton - 1918 - 236 pages
...common meaning was ' the shelter of the branches of a tree;' cf. Ezek. xxxi. 8, "a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature." 219. Anthems. See // Pen. 163, note. no. Sable-stoled. ie robed in black; cf. // Pen. 35, and Tennyson's... | |
 | 1919 - 776 pages
...where the king of Assyria is depicted in the image of this tree: 'Behold, Assur was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud, and...high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made it great, Tehom set it up on high with her rivers running about its plants, and sent... | |
 | Charles Boutflower - 1923 - 370 pages
...its palmy days under the Sargonids by this very figure. " Behold the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; ... All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts... | |
 | Edward J. Young - 1992 - 556 pages
...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...high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs" (Ezek. 31:3). But great as Lebanon was, it would fall by means of a mighty One, and that mighty One... | |
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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. 
