Fondare 147 Risultati per: Precious Stones
Ornament of pure gold, set with whatever stones are rarest; (Ecclesiasticus 50, 10)
He fenced it in, and cleared it of stones, and planted a choice vine there; built a tower, too, in the middle, and set up a wine-press in it. Then he waited for grapes to grow on it, and it bore wild grapes instead. (Isaiah 5, 2)
What burden for Damascus? Damascus, too, shall cease to be a city, shall become a heap of stones in ruin: (Isaiah 17, 1)
A heap of stones where, but for thy decree, a town stood; a crumbling ruin, all that is left of a walled city; a fortress of the invader, dismantled now and never to be built again. (Isaiah 25, 2)
so should the race of Jacob find pardon for its sins. Cleansed now from guilt, to bear fruit in full abundance; ground fine as chalk the altar-stones, pillar and shrine raised up no more! (Isaiah 27, 9)
The Lord will make his dread voice heard, will lay bare his terrible arm, volleying out his anger in flashes of devouring fire, laying all low with his whirlwind, with his hail-stones; (Isaiah 30, 30)
Thou, the friendless, the storm-beaten, the inconsolable, shalt have a pavement of patterned stones, and thy foundations shall be of sapphire; (Isaiah 54, 11)
thou shalt have turrets of jasper, and gates of carved gems, and all thy boundary stones shall be jewels. (Isaiah 54, 12)
Walk warily, keep my sabbath unprofaned. Here is a day I have sanctified, not for thy self-pleasing; a precious thing the Lord has made holy and honourable; and wilt thou dishonour it? Wilt thou go thy own way, use it for thy own pleasure, while it away in gossip? (Isaiah 58, 13)
Remember the prophet Michaeas of Morasthi, they said, in the days of king Ezechias, who told the people of Juda: Sion shall be no better than a ploughed field, says the Lord of hosts, Jerusalem but a heap of stones, the temple height only a hanging wood.✻ (Jeremiah 26, 18)
Take a load of great stones with thee, and go to the vault✻ under the brick wall by the gate of Pharao’s palace at Taphnis; there bury them, with Jewish folk by to watch thee. (Jeremiah 43, 9)
And this message thou shalt give them from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I mean to summon one that is my servant, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and set up a throne for him on these foundations; where these stones lie buried, his canopy shall rise. (Jeremiah 43, 10)
