Above, lofty timbers, The walls around are bare,

The waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great expectations have yielded minimal returns.

From Alexander Pushkin s poems to Leo Tolstoy s novels, French influence pervades the commanding heights of Russian culture.

You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree

For me, it is a great honour to address the Assembly today from this lofty rostrum on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Thus says Yahweh of Armies The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire and they shall be weary.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

The other pictures in the seasons series confirm this impression the world has expanded, the proud fortresses have receded and, paradoxically, the peasant world has become interesting.

Yet, even on the assumption that Putin has no plans to nationalize key natural resource companies, he clearly desires strong state control over these commanding heights of the economy.

They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

SINGAPORE US President Barack Obama s foreign policy landscape is littered with deflated balloons. Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great expectations have yielded minimal returns.

I wished I could thank each one of them. I wished I could tell each one of them how much deeper the pain would have been if they hadn t been here. I wished I could catch the scent of majestic Aleppo in their tears, and dedicate this article to them, or to those among them who are still with us, as many of these revolutionists have died defending freedom.