C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Scriptural Quotations: Old Testament
It is not good that the man should be alone.
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
Am I my brother’s keeper?
My punishment is greater than I can bear.
His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
A man after his own heart.
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
A proverb and a byword among all people.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
A still, small voice.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Miserable comforters are ye all.
I know that my Redeemer liveth.
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
That mine adversary had written a book.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places.
Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.
Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Spreading Himself like a green bay tree.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
While I was musing the fire burned.
Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
His enemies shall lick the dust.
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
The iron entered into his soul.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
He giveth his beloved sleep.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
We hanged our harps on the willows.
For I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.
Fools make a mock at sin.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
The hoary head is a crown of glory.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
For riches certainly make themselves wings.
A wounded spirit who can bear?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
There is no new thing under the sun.
All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.
For a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Be not righteous overmuch.
And the grasshopper shall be a burden.
Man goeth to his long home.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.
Set thine house in order.
All flesh is grass.
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
We all do fade as a leaf.
Amend your ways and your doings.
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there?
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree.
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
He will laugh thee to scorn.