Found 104 Results for: Grave

• Death’s noose about me, caught in the snares of the grave, ever I found distress and grief at my side, (Psalms 114, 3)

• a people whose bones lie scattered at the grave’s mouth, like seed when the earth is cloven into furrows. (Psalms 140, 7)

• Grave tidings, these, for Judas and his people; met they in high debate, and took counsel how they might best aid their brethren in peril of assault. (1 Maccabees 5, 16)

• cast away without dole or tomb, that left so many tombless; in a strange land unburied, that might have rested in his fathers’ grave. (2 Maccabees 5, 10)

• but he thought rather of the reverence that was due to his great age, of his venerable grey hairs, of a life blamelessly lived from childhood onwards. True to the precepts of God’s holy law, he answered that they would do better to send him to his grave and have done with it. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)

• there are fortunes to be swallowed up whole, as a man is swallowed up by death when he goes to his grave. (Proverbs 1, 12)

• forgotten the troth once plighted to her God. The house she dwells in is death’s antechamber, the road by which she beckons leads to the grave; (Proverbs 2, 18)

• Death’s road she follows, her feet set towards the grave; (Proverbs 5, 5)

• truly her house is the grave’s ante-chamber, opens the door into the secret closet of death. (Proverbs 7, 27)

• No hope follows the godless to the grave; nothing left, now, of all their anxious longing. (Proverbs 11, 7)

• Shall the Lord read the secrets of the devouring grave, and not men’s hearts? (Proverbs 15, 11)

• rather, the rod thou wieldest shall baulk the grave of its prey. (Proverbs 23, 14)