Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully Illustrated by Original Drawings, Colored from Nature |
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allusion aloë aloes ancient anethum anise appears Arabs articles of food barley beans bears beauty blossoms botanical bramble bread briers bulrush calamus called camphire cane cockle color common coriander cultivation cummin Cyperus Esculentus delicate dust East eaten Egypt Egyptian feet fields flax floating flourished flowers and fruits fragrance gardens garlic gathered gourd grain grapes green bay-tree grew growing growth Hasselquist Hebrew hemlock Hence henna Herodotus hills Holy Land hyssop Isaiah Israelites Jericho Jews Jonah Judea kind lamb leaves Lebanon lily linen Linn little plant mallow mentioned myrrh native noticed occurs oleander onithogalum Palestine paper-reed passage perfume petals places plains pleasant Pliny pollen pomegranate present probably prophet reed referred root Samaria Saviour Scripture seed seems Sheep's Fescue soil Solomon speaks spikenard spoken stem supposed sweet Syria thistle thorns Tiberias traveller trees varieties verdure vine vineyards wander waters wheat whence wild wine word translated
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Page 57 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 73 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 97 - Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.' For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Page 45 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 93 - And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage : for they knew them not.
Page 109 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Page 41 - How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Page 73 - Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire : your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Page 96 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Page 58 - And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.