Fondare 35 Risultati per: Sand
raining down meat on them thick as dust, birds on the wing, plentiful as the sea-sand. (Psalms 77, 27)
Here, he changes rivers into desert sand, wells into dry ground; (Psalms 106, 33)
As well count the sand, as try to fathom them; and, were that skill mine, thy own being still confronts me. (Psalms 138, 18)
And now Ptolemy, king of Egypt, levied a great army, countless as sand on the beach, and a fleet besides; to win Alexander’s realm his treacherous design was, and add it to his own. (1 Maccabees 11, 1)
What is more crushing than stone, more burdensome than sand? A fool’s ill humour. (Proverbs 27, 3)
O heart of dust, O ambition worthless as the sand, life than his own clay more despicable! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
Sand thou mayst count, or the rain-drops, or the days of the world’s abiding; heaven-height thou mayst measure, or the wide earth, or the depth of the world beneath, (Ecclesiasticus 1, 2)
With sand or salt or iron bars burden thyself, not with rash and godless company, not with a fool. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 18)
Countless though Israel be as the sea sand, only a remnant of it will return; there must be a sharp reckoning first, before we are restored, abundantly, to his favour.✻ (Isaiah 10, 22)
thy own race, thy own stock, should have been numberless as the sand or the pebbles on the sea-beach; the remembrance of thee should never have been cut off from my merciful regard.✻ (Isaiah 48, 19)
Have you no fear of me, the Lord says, will you stand unmoved in my presence? Was it not I gave the sea its frontier of sand, by my eternal decree inviolate? Vainly the waves boil and toss, they cannot pass beyond it. (Jeremiah 5, 22)
Widows there be, countless as the sea-sand; where is now the warrior son? In broad daylight I send the roving spoiler to strike terror into their cities. (Jeremiah 15, 8)
