Ecclesiastes 2:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 2:14 : 14 And I pass over unto the gate of the fountain, and unto the pool of the king, and there is no place for the beast under me to pass over,
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.
  • Song 7:4 : 4 Thy neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the gate of Bath-Rabbim, Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to Damascus,
  • Jer 17:8 : 8 And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

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    1I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.

    2Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What `is' this it is doing?'

    3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

    4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

    5I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

  • Eccl 2:7-11
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    7I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

    8I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man -- a wife and wives.

    9And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

    10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

  • 2 Chr 2:8-10
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    8and send to me cedar-trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I have known that thy servants know to cut down trees of Lebanon, and lo, my servants `are' with thy servants,

    9even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building `is' great and wonderful.

    10`And lo, to hewers, to those cutting the trees, I have given beaten wheat to thy servants, cors twenty thousand, and barley, cors twenty thousand, and wine, baths twenty thousand, and oil, baths twenty thousand.'

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    4Waters have made it great, The deep hath exalted him with its flowings, Going round about its planting, And its conduits it hath sent forth unto all trees of the field.

    5Therefore higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,

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    25I -- I have dug and drunk waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

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    18I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.

    19I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.

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    16I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.

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    6As valleys they have been stretched out, As gardens by a river; As aloes Jehovah hath planted, As cedars by waters;

  • Ezek 31:7
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    7And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

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    24I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

  • Eccl 1:12-13
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    12I, a preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

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    14Cutting down to himself cedars, He taketh also a cypress, and an oak, And he strengtheneth `it' for himself Among the trees of a forest, He hath planted an ash, and the shower doth nourish `it'.

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    16Satisfied `are' the trees of Jehovah, Cedars of Lebanon that He hath planted,

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    12My vineyard -- my own -- is before me, The thousand `is' for thee, O Solomon. And the two hundred for those keeping its fruit. O dweller in gardens!

  • Gen 2:8-9
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    8And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;

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    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

  • 1 Kgs 4:33
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    33and he speaketh concerning the trees, from the cedar that `is' in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that is coming out in the wall, and he speaketh concerning the cattle, and concerning the fowl, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes,

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    11Unto a garden of nuts I went down, To look on the buds of the valley, To see whither the vine had flourished, The pomegranates had blossomed --

  • Ezek 31:9
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    9Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that `are' in the garden of God.

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    13Watering hills from His upper chambers, From the fruit of Thy works is the earth satisfied.

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    19My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

  • 2 Chr 9:27
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    27And the king maketh the silver in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he hath made as sycamores, that `are' in the low country, for abundance,

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    9Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,

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    16and we -- we cut trees out of Lebanon, according to all thy need, and bring them in to thee -- floats by sea, to Joppa, and thou dost take them up to Jerusalem.'

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    11And a ditch ye made between the two walls, For the waters of the old pool, And ye have not looked unto its Maker, And its Framer of old ye have not seen.

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    15And the king maketh the silver and the gold in Jerusalem as stones, and the cedars he made as sycamores that `are' in the low country, for abundance.

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    15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

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    8and a letter unto Asaph, keeper of the paradise that the king hath, that he give to me trees for beams `for' the gates of the palace that the house hath, and for the wall of the city, and for the house into which I enter;' and the king giveth to me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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    8On a good field, by many waters, it is planted, To make branches, and to bear fruit, To be for an goodly vine.