Flowers and Trees of Palestine

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Elliot Stock, 1907 - 172 sider

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Side 41 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits, camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Side 41 - The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Side 16 - For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts...
Side 119 - Alack, alack, is it not like that I So early waking, what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes...
Side 39 - And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Side 32 - And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds...
Side 34 - Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
Side 15 - The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Side 42 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Side 27 - For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter; Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

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