And Haman told them of the glory of his riches and the multitude of his sons and all the things in which the king had promoted him and how he had advanced him above the princes and slaves of the king.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but at the same time I cursed his habitation.

Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

A green bay-tree

So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrite's hope shall perish.

All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt many Gentiles.

The tree that thou didst see, which grew and made himself strong, whose height reached unto the heaven and the sight thereof to all the earth;

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For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb.

How did they not forgive the city of praise, the city of my joy!