 | Elizabeth Wilson - 1849 - 390 pàgines
...monuments of divine justice. Nebuchadnezzar was driven from the society of men, and ate grass as oxen, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws, until he was brought to acknowledge that the Most High reigneth, and had not resigned the dominion... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1850 - 656 pàgines
...old, expelled from human society, and, living on the spontaneous products of the soil, did eat grase as oxen, and his body was wet with, the dew of heaven,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. — This great vaunted city also now drew near to the pangs of that destruction with which she had... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1850 - 384 pàgines
...Nebuchadi.ez'zar was punished by a fit of lunacy; during which " he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws."t Evil-Merodach succeeded, and after a short reign was murdered by his sister's husband, Neriglis'sar.... | |
 | William Blake - 1993 - 302 pàgines
...described in the apocalyptic Old Testament Book of Daniel : 'he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws' (4.33). In the apocalyptic New Testament Book of Revelation and Christian tradition he becomes a symbol... | |
 | Roger Poole - 1993 - 344 pàgines
...same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws" (Daniel 4:33). Once again the theme is that of enforced silence, like Job's,... | |
 | William Reynolds, Elizabeth Ann Trembley - 1994 - 254 pàgines
...Nebuchadnezzar is the fallen Babylonian king who, punished by God, was "driven from men . . . did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagle's feathers, and his nails like bird's claws" (Daniel 4:33). Becoming unreasonable, like a beast,... | |
 | E. W. Sprague - 1996 - 404 pàgines
...same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." Recovers His Mind. Verse 34 : "At the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - 1996 - 310 pàgines
...by God for pride in the Book of Daniel, by being driven from men to 'eat grass as oxen ', his body ' wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws'. But there grew up in both East and West a tradition of holy wild men : saints and anchorites who withdrew... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...1914 and Other Poems (1915). Concluding lines. Hermits 1 And he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven,...eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws. BIBLE: HEBREW, Daniel, 4:33. Referring to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. Heroes and Heroines 1 I'm... | |
 | Robert P. Carroll, Stephen Prickett - 1998 - 1828 pàgines
...same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass an have nothing more profitable in their life. 8 If...man desire much experience, she knoweth things of ol bis nails like birds' claws. 34 And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto... | |
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The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds 
