and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king.

I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.

A green bay-tree

So are the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.

The tree that thou hast seen, that hath become great and strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to all the land,

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For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.

How is it not left -- the city of praise, The city of my joy!