Fondare 456 Risultati per: Rock Water
Is the girdle bought and worn? Up, take it with thee to Euphrates river, and hide it there in a crevice of the rock. (Jeremiah 13, 4)
Master sends man to fetch water, but when cistern is reached, water is none; back go the pails empty, and disappointed vexation veils its head. (Jeremiah 14, 3)
Why are those sad thoughts still with me? Is my hurt desperate, beyond all remedy? Did it cheat me, like some empty water-course, my hope in thee?✻ (Jeremiah 15, 18)
Not more favoured is tree planted by the water’s edge, that pushes out its roots to catch the moisture, and defies the summer heat; its green leaves careless of the drought, its fruit unfailing. (Jeremiah 17, 8)
thou, Lord, art Israel’s hope; the men who forsake thee will be disappointed, the men who swerve from thy paths will be names written in sand; have they not forsaken that Lord who is the fountain of living water? (Jeremiah 17, 13)
Have at thee, proud city, the Lord says, the valley thy dwelling-place, rock-built guardian of the plain! Boast you, its townspeople, that on you no stroke shall fall, none shall reach your lair? (Jeremiah 21, 13)
So they had their way with Jeremias; he should be left helpless in the cistern of Melchias the son of Amelech,✻ there in the court where the prisoners were kept. Into the cistern they lowered him with ropes; there was no water in it now, only mire, and into the mire he sank. (Jeremiah 38, 6)
till now, pride and the insolence of thy heart deluded thee, so safe thy nest among the rock-crevices, so close thou didst cling to the mountain summits; but now, be thy eyrie high as the eagle’s, I will yet drag thee down, the Lord says.✻ (Jeremiah 49, 16)
Ours to buy the very water we drink, pay a price for every stick of fire-wood; (Lamentations 5, 4)
Things of wood and stone, gold and silver, no more than rock on the mountain-side can they speed their worshippers; (Baruch 6, 38)
and water thou shalt drink at set times, two pints by measure. (Ezekiel 4, 11)
But be sure of this, son of man; I mean to cut off from Jerusalem every source of bread; weighed out to them their bread shall be, and anxiously, measured out to them their water, and in great lack. (Ezekiel 4, 16)
