Found 496 Results for: Bitter Water Test
For bitter jealousy of mine Ephraim must pay the penalty; spurned Master spurns him now. (Hosea 12, 14)
till one city must supply water for three neighbours, and none had its fill, and you would not come back to me. (Amos 4, 8)
All your feasting turned to lament, all your songs to dirge and dole; not a loin but goes clad in sackcloth, not a head but is shaved bald; never was such mourning made, though it were for an only son; bitter the day, bitter its ending. (Amos 8, 10)
And a cry was raised in Nineve, at the bidding of the king and his nobles, A fast for man and beast, for herd and flock; no food is to be eaten, no water drunk; (Jonah 3, 7)
melt hills at his touch, melt valleys like wax before the fire, like water over the steep rocks flowing away! (Micah 1, 4)
Poor remnant of Jacob, lost among that multitude of peoples! Yet thrive it shall; does not the grass thrive, with dew and shower from the Lord to water it, nor looks for man’s tending, unbeholden to our human toil? (Micah 5, 7)
Open, now, stands the water-gate, crumbles yonder temple into dust. (Nahum 2, 6)
Nineve, welcome sight as pools of water to the fugitive;✻ stay, stay! But never a one looks back. (Nahum 2, 8)
Here was another city, No-Ammon,✻ fair as thyself; she too was built on the river-side, water all about her; the sea her mart, the sea her defences. (Nahum 3, 8)
Water, there, water for a siege! Raise the battlements higher yet! Down to the clay-pit with thee, tread the mortar, put thy hand to the brick-mould! (Nahum 3, 14)
rid it, says he, of man and beast, of bird in air and fish under water; and down shall the godless come too, never a man left alive upon it. (Zephaniah 1, 3)
Nearer, nearer comes the great day of the Lord’s reckoning, ay, and soon; bitter the bruit of its coming; here is peril to cow the bravest heart. (Zephaniah 1, 14)
