(114 quotes found)
“And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.”
Bible
“And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.”
“I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?”
“If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine”
Horace
“For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.”
“Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.”
“For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.”
“Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.”
“Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.”
“Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.”
