And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
He spake of trees, from the cedar ... unto the hyssop х haa'eezowb (H231)] - the hyssop, called by the Arabs sahtary; the wild marjoram, an aromatic plant of the labiate order, loving a dry and rocky soil, and often seen growing up in the midst of old ruins (see Munk's 'Palestine'). But Hasselquist supposed that the reference is to a species of moss, Gymnostomum jasciculare, which grows still on the shady parts of the walls of Jerusalem. The meaning is, that his works comprehended a description of all plants, from the greatest to the least. The Spirit of God has seen fit to preserve comparatively few memorials of the fruits of his gigantic mind. The greater part of those here ascribed to him have long since fallen a prey to the ravages of time, or perished in the Babylonian captivity, probably because they were not inspired.