took branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting as they went, "God save him! Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord--even on the King of Israel!"

And even now the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which fails to yield good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire."

And He spoke a parable to them. "See," He said, "the fig-tree and all the trees.

And already the axe is lying at the root of the trees, so that every tree which does not produce good fruit will quickly be hewn down and thrown into the fire.

After this I looked, and a vast host appeared which it was impossible for anyone to count, gathered out of every nation and from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in long white robes, and carrying palm-branches in their hands.

He looked up and said, "I can see the people: I see them like trees--only walking."

These men--sunken rocks! --are those who share the pleasure of your love-feasts, unrestrained by fear while caring only for themselves; clouds without water, driven away by the winds; trees that cast their fruit, barren, doubly dead, uprooted;

"Injure neither land nor sea nor trees," he said, "until we have sealed the bondservants of our God upon their foreheads."

The first blew his trumpet; and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, falling upon the earth; and a third part of the earth was burnt up, and a third part of the trees and all the green grass.

"These witnesses are the two olive-trees, and they are the two lamps which stand in the presence of the Lord of the earth.

and most of the crowd kept spreading their garments along the road, while others cut branches from the trees and carpeted the road with them,