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Isaiah ii. 20.
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Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.
Isaiah ii. 22.
The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
Isaiah iii. 1.
Grind the faces of the poor.
Isaiah iii. 15.
Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go.
Isaiah iii. 16.
In that day seven women shall take hold of one man.
Isaiah iv. 1.
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.
Isaiah v. 20.
I am a man of unclean lips.
Isaiah vi. 5.
The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt.
Isaiah vii. 18.
Wizards that peep and that mutter.
Isaiah viii. 19.
To the law and to the testimony.
Isaiah viii. 20.
The ancient and honorable.
Isaiah ix. 15.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
Isaiah xi. 2.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
Isaiah xi. 6.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming.
Isaiah xiv. 9.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
Isaiah xiv. 12.
The burden of the desert of the sea.
Isaiah xxi. 1.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen.
Isaiah xxi. 9.
Watchman, what of the night?
Isaiah xxi. 11.
Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die.
Isaiah xxii. 13.
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Fasten him as a nail in a sure place.
Isaiah xxii. 23.
Whose merchants are princes.
Isaiah xxiii. 8.
A feast of fat things.
Isaiah xxv. 6.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
Isaiah xxviii. 10.
We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.
Isaiah xxviii. 15.
Their strength is to sit still.
Isaiah xxx. 7.
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.
Isaiah xxx. 8.
The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isaiah xxxv. 1.
Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed.
Isaiah xxxvi. 6.
Set thine house in order.
Isaiah xxxviii. 1.
All flesh is grass.
Isaiah xl. 6.
The nations are as a drop of a bucket.
Isaiah xl. 15.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
Isaiah xlii. 3.
There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
Isaiah xlviii. 22.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
Isaiah liii. 7.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Isaiah lv. 7.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
Isaiah lx. 22.
Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
Isaiah lxi. 3.
I have trodden the wine-press alone.
Isaiah lxiii. 3.
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We all do fade as a leaf.
Isaiah lxiv. 6.
Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah vi. 14; viii. 11.
Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.[835:1]
Jeremiah vi. 16.
Amend your ways and your doings.
Jeremiah vii. 3; xxvi. 13.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
Jeremiah viii. 22.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
Jeremiah ix. 2.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Jeremiah xiii. 23.
A man of strife and a man of contention.
Jeremiah xv. 10.
Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.
Jeremiah xvii. 1.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.
Jeremiah xxii. 19.
As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
Ezekiel x. 10.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Ezekiel xviii. 2; (Jeremiah xxxi. 29.)
Stood at the parting of the way.
Ezekiel xxi. 21.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Daniel v. 27.
According to the law of the Medes and Persians.
Daniel vi. 12.
Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel xii. 4.
They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Hosea viii. 7.
I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes.
Hosea viii. 10.
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Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
Joel ii. 28.
Multitudes in the valley of decision.
Joel iii. 14.
They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree.
Micah iv. 4.
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Habakkuk ii. 2.
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Zechariah i. 5.
For who hath despised the day of small things?
Zechariah iv. 10.
Prisoners of hope.
Zechariah ix. 12.
I was wounded in the house of my friends.
Zechariah xiii. 6.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
Malachi iv. 2.
Great is truth, and mighty above all things.[836:1]
1 Esdras iv. 41.
Unto you is paradise opened.
2 Esdras viii. 52.
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
2 Esdras xiv. 25.
So they [Azarias and Tobias] went forth both, and the young man's dog went with them.
Tobit v. 16.
So they went their way, and the dog went after them.
Tobit xi. 4.
Our time is a very shadow that passeth away.
Wisdom of Solomon ii. 5.
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered.
Wisdom of Solomon ii. 8.
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Wisdom of Solomon iv. 8.
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When I was born I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature, and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.[837:1]
Wisdom of Solomon vii. 3.
Observe the opportunity.
Ecclesiasticus iv. 20.
Be not ignorant of anything in a great matter or a small.
Ecclesiasticus v. 15.
Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.
Ecclesiasticus vii. 36.
Miss not the discourse of the elders.
Ecclesiasticus viii. 9.
Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Ecclesiasticus ix. 10.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Ecclesiasticus xiii. 1.
He will laugh thee to scorn.
Ecclesiasticus xiii. 7.
Gladness of heart is the life of man, and the joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
Ecclesiasticus xxx. 22.
Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.
Ecclesiasticus xxxiii. 17.
For of the most High cometh healing.
Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 2.
Whose talk is of bullocks.
Ecclesiasticus xxxviii. 25.
These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.
Ecclesiasticus xliv. 7.
There be of them that have left a name behind them.
Ecclesiasticus xliv. 8.
Nicanor lay dead in his harness.
2 Maccabees xv. 28.
If I have done well, and as is fitting, . . . it is that which I desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
2 Maccabees xv. 38.
[815:1] See Cowper, page 421.
[816:1] The place thereof shall know it no more.—Psalm ciii. 16.
Usually quoted, "The place that has known him shall know him no more."
[818:1] Of very babes.—Book of Common Prayer.
[818:2] Thou madest him lower than.—Book of Common Prayer.
[818:3] The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground.—Book of Common Prayer.
[818:4] Apple of an eye.—Book of Common Prayer.
[818:5] He rode upon the cherubim, and did fly; he came flying upon the wings of the wind.—Book of Common Prayer.
[819:1] One day telleth another; and one night certifieth another.—Book of Common Prayer.
[819:2] He shall feed me in a green pasture, and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.—Book of Common Prayer.
[819:3] Thy rod and thy staff comfort me.—Book of Common Prayer.
[819:4] My cup shall be full.—Book of Common Prayer.
[819:5] He fashioneth all the hearts of them.—Book of Common Prayer.
[819:6] And yet saw I never . . . begging their bread.—Book of Common Prayer.
[819:7] Flourishing.—Book of Common Prayer.
[819:8] While I was thus musing the fire kindled.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:1] Lord, let me know my end, and the number of my days, that I may be certified how long I have to live.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:2] Every man living is altogether vanity.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:3] And cannot tell.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:4] As the hart desireth the water-brooks.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:5] One deep calleth another.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:6] God is our hope and strength.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:7] The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:8] Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish.—Book of Common Prayer.
[820:9] But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.—Book of Common Prayer.
[821:1] The words of his mouth were softer than butter, having war in his heart.—Book of Common Prayer.
[821:2] Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.—Book of Common Prayer.
[821:3] As for the children of men, they are but vanity: the children of men are deceitful upon the weights; they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.—Book of Common Prayer.
[821:4] He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool.—Book of Common Prayer.
[821:5] Nor yet.—Book of Common Prayer.
[821:6] One day in thy courts.—Book of Common Prayer.
[821:7] Ungodliness.—Book of Common Prayer.
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