Thematic Bible: Illustrative
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of God's judgment
Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.
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For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
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In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread.
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I gather upon them evils, Mine arrows I consume upon them. Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust. Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair. read more.
I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man; If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this. For a nation lost to counsels are they, And there is no understanding in them. If they were wise -- They deal wisely with this; They attend to their latter end: How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up? For not as our Rock is their rock, (And our enemies are judges!) For of the vine of Sodom their vine is, And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall -- They have bitter clusters; The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps. Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures? Mine are vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them. For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth -- the going away of power, And none is restrained and left. And He hath said, Where are their gods -- The rock in which they trusted; Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and help you, Let it be for you a hiding-place! See ye, now, that I -- I am He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer, For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age! If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay! I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.
I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man; If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this. For a nation lost to counsels are they, And there is no understanding in them. If they were wise -- They deal wisely with this; They attend to their latter end: How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up? For not as our Rock is their rock, (And our enemies are judges!) For of the vine of Sodom their vine is, And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall -- They have bitter clusters; The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps. Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures? Mine are vengeance and recompense, At the due time -- doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them. For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth -- the going away of power, And none is restrained and left. And He hath said, Where are their gods -- The rock in which they trusted; Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and help you, Let it be for you a hiding-place! See ye, now, that I -- I am He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer, For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live -- to the age! If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay! I make drunk Mine arrows with blood, And My sword devoureth flesh, From the blood of the pierced and captive, From the head of the freemen of the enemy.
And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of severe afflictions
For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!
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For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of lightnings
Poured out waters have thick clouds, The skies have given forth a noise, Also -- Thine arrows go up and down. The voice of Thy thunder is in the spheres, Lightnings have lightened the world, The earth hath trembled, yea, it shaketh.
Arrows » Illustrative » Of false witnesses
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.
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Arrows » Illustrative » (falling from the hand), of the paralyzing power
And have smitten thy bow out of thy left hand, Yea, thine arrows out of thy right I cause to fall.
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of slanderous tongues
A slaughtering arrow is their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of young children
O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of Christ
And he maketh my mouth as a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He hath hid me, And He maketh me for a clear arrow, In His quiver He hath hid me.
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Arrows » Illustrative » (broken), of destruction of power
There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of devices of the wicked
For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of bitter words
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
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Arrows » Illustrative » Of the word of Christ
Thine arrows are sharp, -- Peoples fall under Thee -- In the heart of the enemies of the king.
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or adder Asp » Illustrative » Of obstinate rejecters of God's word
Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear, Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
or adder Asp » Illustrative » Of the enemies of God's people
On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon.
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Beds » Illustrative » (too short,) of plans which afford no rest or peace
For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.
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Beds » Illustrative » (made on high,) of carnal security
On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.
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Beds » Illustrative » Of the grave
He entereth into peace, they rest on their beds, Each is going straightforward.
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Beds » Illustrative » (made in sickness,) of divine support and comfort
Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.
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Beds » Illustrative » (made in darkness,) of extreme misery
If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.
Birds » Illustrative » (snaring,) of designs of the wicked
Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.
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My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down to the pit, read more.
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.' My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil, Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.' My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.
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Birds » Illustrative » Of people of different countries
In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.
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which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'
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Birds » Illustrative » Of the devil and his spirits
Every one hearing the word of the reign, and not understanding -- the evil one doth come, and doth catch that which hath been sown in his heart; this is that sown by the way.
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and in his sowing, some indeed fell by the way, and the fowls did come and devour them,
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Birds » Illustrative » Of unsettled persons, &c
And it hath come to pass, As a wandering bird, a nest cast out, Are daughters of Moab, at fords of Arnon.
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As a bird wandering from her nest, So is a man wandering from his place.
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Birds » Illustrative » (snaring,) of death
For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
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Birds » Illustrative » Of hostile nations
A speckled fowl is Mine inheritance to Me? Is the fowl round about against her? Come, assemble, every beast of the field, Come ye for food.
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Birds » Illustrative » Of cruel and rapacious kings
Calling from the east a ravenous bird, From a far land the man of My counsel, Yea, I have spoken, yea, I bring it in, I have formed it, yea, I do it.
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Blood » Illustrative » (on one's own head,) of guilt
and David saith unto him, 'Thy blood is on thine own head, for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I -- I put to death the anointed of Jehovah.'
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For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.
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In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.
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Blood » Illustrative » (given to drink,) of severe judgments
And I have judged thee -- judgments of adulteresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.
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because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'
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Blood » Illustrative » (washing the feet in,) of victories
So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, In the blood of enemies -- the tongue of Thy dogs.'
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The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
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Blood » Illustrative » (building with,) of oppression and cruelty
Woe to him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
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Blood » Illustrative » (preparing to,) of ripening for destruction
Therefore, I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee.
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Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.
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'And thou hast broken the bottle before the eyes of the men who are going with thee,
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Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sent to him wanderers, And they have caused him to wander, And his vessels they empty out, And his bottles they dash in pieces.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment
And thou hast said unto them this word, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, 'Every bottle is full of wine,' And they have said unto thee: 'Do we not certainly know that every bottle is full of wine?' And thou hast said unto them, 'Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings who sit for David on his throne, And the priests, and the prophets, And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, With drunkenness, And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.
Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
For I have been as a bottle in smoke, Thy statutes I have not forgotten.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance
My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?
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Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient
Lo, my breast is as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds
Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
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the Bow » Illustrative » (when broken,) of the overthrow of power
and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.'
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'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am breaking the bow of Elam, The beginning of their might.
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Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.
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And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.
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the Bow » Illustrative » Of the tongue of the wicked
For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
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And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!
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the Bow » Illustrative » (when deceitful,) of the hypocrite
And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,
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They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This is their derision in the land of Egypt!
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the Bow » Illustrative » Of strength and power
My honour is fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.
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Bread » Illustrative » (seeking of begging,) of extreme poverty
Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.
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and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'
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All her people are sighing -- seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.
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Bread » Illustrative » (when broken,) of the death of Christ
And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, 'Take, eat, this is my body;'
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For I -- I received from the Lord that which also I did deliver to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread, and having given thanks, he brake, and said, 'Take ye, eat ye, this is my body, that for you is being broken; this do ye -- to the remembrance of me.'
Bread » Illustrative » (partaking of,) of communion of saints
Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,
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because one bread, one body, are we the many -- for we all of the one bread do partake.
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Bread » Illustrative » (want of,) of extreme poverty
Better is the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.
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He lifteth up, in that day, saying: 'I am not a binder up, And in my house is neither bread nor garment, Ye do not make me a ruler of the people.'
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Bread » Illustrative » (eating without scarceness,) of plenty
a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass;
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Bread » Illustrative » (of deceit,) of unlawful gain
Sweet to a man is the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled with gravel.
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Bread » Illustrative » (of idleness,) of sloth
She is watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.
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Bread » Illustrative » (of wickedness,) of oppression
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
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Bread » Illustrative » (fulness of,) of abundance
Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.
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Bread » Illustrative » (of adversity,) of heavy affliction
And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,
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Bread » Illustrative » Of Christ
for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.' They said, therefore, unto him, 'Sir, always give us this bread.' And Jesus said to them, 'I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;
Bread » Illustrative » (of tears,) of sorrow
Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
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Brooks » Illustrative » Of wisdom
Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook.
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Brooks » Illustrative » (drinking of, by the way,) of help in distress
From a brook in the way he drinketh, Therefore he doth lift up the head!
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Brooks » Illustrative » Of temporal abundance
He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
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Brooks » Illustrative » (deceptive,) of false friends
My brethren have deceived as a brook, As a stream of brooks they pass away.
Cities of refuge » Illustrative » Of Christ
For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible is as a storm -- a wall.
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He is saying of Jehovah, 'My refuge, and my bulwark, my God, I trust in Him,'
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Cities of refuge » Illustrative » (the way to,) of Christ
Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
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And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the 'way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
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Cities of refuge » Illustrative » Of the hope of the gospel
that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,
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Clouds » Illustrative » Of judgments of God
As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness.
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How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven to earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
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For near is a day, near is a day to Jehovah! A day of clouds, the time of nations it is.
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A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.
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Clouds » Illustrative » Of hostile armies
Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Woe to us, for we have been spoiled.
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And thou hast gone up -- as wasting thou comest in, As a cloud to cover the land art thou, Thou and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee.
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And thou hast come up against My people Israel, As a cloud to cover the land, In the latter end of the days it is, And I have brought thee in against My land, In order that the nations may know Me, In My being sanctified in thee before their eyes, O Gog.
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Clouds » Illustrative » Of unsearchableness of God
And I look, and lo, a tempestuous wind is coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire catching itself, and brightness to it round about, and out of its midst as the colour of copper, out of the midst of the fire.
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And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.
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Cloud and darkness are round about Him, Righteousness and judgment the basis of His throne.
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Clouds » Illustrative » Of multitudes of persons
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
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Who are these -- as a thick cloud they fly, And as doves unto their windows?
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Clouds » Illustrative » (riding upon,) of the power and greatness of God
The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.
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Who is laying the beam of His upper chambers in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on wings of wind,
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Clouds » Illustrative » (passing away,) of the goodness and prosperity of hypocrites
What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness is as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.
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Therefore they are as a cloud of the morning, And as dew, rising early, going away, As chaff tossed about out of a floor, And as smoke out of a window.
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Clouds » Illustrative » (a morning without,) of wise rulers
He said -- the God of Israel -- to me, He spake -- the Rock of Israel: He who is ruling over man is righteous, He is ruling in the fear of God. And as the light of morning he riseth, A morning sun -- no clouds! By the shining, by the rain, Tender grass of the earth!
Clouds » Illustrative » (when seasonable,) of the favor of good rulers
In the light of a king's face is life, And his good-will is as a cloud of the latter rain.
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Clouds » Illustrative » (without rain,) of the fraudulent
Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, Is a man boasting himself in a false gift.
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Clouds » Illustrative » (carried away by a tempest,) of false teachers
These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;
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Clouds » Illustrative » Of sins of men
I have blotted out, as by a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as by a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.
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Clouds » Illustrative » (without water,) of false teachers
These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;
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Covenants » Illustrative » Of the united determination of a people to serve God
And Jehoiada maketh the covenant between Jehovah and the king and the people, to be for a people to Jehovah, and between the king and the people.
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and they enter into a covenant to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul,
are laying hold on their brethren, their honourable ones, and coming in to an execration, and in to an oath, to walk in the law of God, that was given by the hand of Moses, servant of God, and to observe and to do all the commands of Jehovah our Lord, and His judgments, and His statutes;
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Covenants » Illustrative » Of God's promises to man
that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;
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'And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you, and with every living creature which is with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every beast of the earth with you, from all who are going out of the ark -- to every beast of the earth. And I have established My covenant with you, and all flesh is not any more cut off by waters of a deluge, and there is not any more a deluge to destroy the earth.'
Covenants » Illustrative » (with death and hell,) of carnal security
Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'
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And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.
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Covenants » Illustrative » (with stones and beasts of the earth,) of peace and prosperity
And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.
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(For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
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Covenants » Illustrative » Of the contract of marriage
And ye have said, 'Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.
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Covenants » Illustrative » Of good resolutions
A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?
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Defilement » Illustrative » Of sin
not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'
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but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;
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Defilement » Illustrative » Of unholy doctrines
have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.
the Deluge » Illustrative » Of the destruction of sinners
Lo, a mighty and strong one is to the Lord, As a storm of hail -- a destructive shower, As an inundation of mighty waters overflowing, He cast down to the earth with the hand.
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And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.
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For this doth every saintly one pray to Thee, As the time to find. Surely at an overflowing of many waters, Unto him they come not.
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the Deluge » Illustrative » (unexpectedness of,) of suddenness of Christ's coming
And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers of the heavens -- except my Father only; and as the days of Noah -- so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man; for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark, read more.
and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.
and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.
'And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all; in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; read more.
and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. 'According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;
and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all. 'According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;
the Deluge » Illustrative » Of baptism
who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water; also to which an antitype doth now save us -- baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,
Dogs » Illustrative » Of obstinate sinners
Ye may not give that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.
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and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.
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Dogs » Illustrative » (dead,) of the mean
After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? -- after a dead dog! after one flea!
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And he boweth himself, and saith, 'What is thy servant, that thou hast turned unto the dead dog -- such as I?'
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Dogs » Illustrative » Of gentiles
and lo, a woman, a Canaanitess, from those borders having come forth, did call to him, saying, 'Deal kindly with me, Sir -- Son of David; my daughter is miserably demonized.'
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and he answering said, 'It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.'
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Dogs » Illustrative » Of persecutors
And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.
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Deliver from the sword my soul, From the paw of a dog mine only one.
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Dogs » Illustrative » Of false teachers
look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;
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Dogs » Illustrative » Of fools
As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.
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Dogs » Illustrative » (dumb,) of unfaithful ministers
Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
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Dogs » Illustrative » Of covetous ministers
And the dogs are strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they are shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:
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Dogs » Illustrative » Of apostates
and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; 'A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, 'A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.'
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Doves » Illustrative » Of the church
I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! 'Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled with dew, My locks with drops of the night.'
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My dove, in clefts of the rock, In a secret place of the ascent, Cause me to see thine appearance, Cause me to hear thy voice, For thy voice is sweet, and thy appearance comely.
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Doves » Illustrative » Of mourners
We make a noise as bears -- all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation -- it hath been far from us.
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As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.
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Doves » Illustrative » Of the holy ghost
And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him,
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And John testified, saying -- 'I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;
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Doves » Illustrative » Of the meekness of Christ
His eyes as doves by streams of water, Washing in milk, sitting in fulness.
Doves » Illustrative » (in its flight,) of the return of israel from captivity
They tremble as a sparrow out of Egypt, And as a dove out of the land of Asshur, And I have caused them to dwell in their own houses, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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Doves » Illustrative » Of converts to the church
Who are these -- as a thick cloud they fly, And as doves unto their windows?
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the Dragon » Illustrative » Of the devil
and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,
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And when the thousand years may be finished, the Adversary shall be loosed out of his prison,
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and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.
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the Dragon » Illustrative » Of cruel and persecuting kings
Speak, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt! The great dragon that is crouching in the midst of his floods, Who hath said, My flood is my own, And I -- I have made it for myself.
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In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that is in the sea.
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Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as in days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!
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the Dragon » Illustrative » (poison of,) of wine
The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
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the Dragon » Illustrative » Of enemies of the church
On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon.
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the Dragon » Illustrative » Of wicked men
But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
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Eagles » Illustrative » (swiftness of,) of the swiftness of hostile armies
For thus said Jehovah: Lo, as an eagle he doth flee, And hath spread his wings unto Moab.
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Lo, as clouds he cometh up, And as a hurricane his chariots, Lighter than eagles have been his horses, Woe to us, for we have been spoiled.
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Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned after us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.
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'Jehovah doth lift up against thee a nation, from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle it flieth; a nation whose tongue thou hast not heard,
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Eagles » Illustrative » (mode of teaching her young to fly,) of God's care of his church
As an eagle waketh up its nest, Over its young ones fluttereth, Spreadeth its wings -- taketh them, Beareth them on its pinions; --
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Ye -- ye have seen that which I have done to the Egyptians, and I bear you on eagles' wings, and bring you in unto Myself.
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Eagles » Illustrative » Of wisdom and zeal of God's ministers
As to the likeness of their faces, the face of a man, and the face of a lion, toward the right are to them four, and the face of an ox on the left are to them four, and the face of an eagle are to them four.
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and the first living creature is like a lion, and the second living creature is like a calf, and the third living creature hath the face as a man, and the fourth living creature is like an eagle flying.
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Eagles » Illustrative » (height and security of its dwelling,) of the fancied but fatal security of the wicked
Thy terribleness hath lifted thee up, The pride of thy heart, O dweller in clefts of the rock, Holding the high place of the height, For thou makest high as an eagle thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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Eagles » Illustrative » Of great and powerful kings
and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The great eagle, great-winged, long-pinioned, Full of feathers, that hath diverse colours, Hath come in unto Lebanon, And it taketh the foliage of the cedar,
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Unto thy mouth -- a trumpet, As an eagle against the house of Jehovah, Because they transgressed My covenant, And against My law they have rebelled.
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Eagles » Illustrative » (wings of,) of protection afforded to the church
and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent;
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Eagles » Illustrative » (swiftness of,) of the melting away of riches
For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
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Eagles » Illustrative » (upward flight of,) of the saint's rapid progress toward heaven
But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!
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Eagles » Illustrative » (renewed strength and beauty of,) of the renewal of saints
Who is satisfying with good thy desire, Renew itself as an eagle doth thy youth.
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Eagles » Illustrative » (increased baldness of, in the moulting season,) of calamities
Make bald and shave, for thy delightful sons, Enlarge thy baldness as an eagle, For they have removed from thee!
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Eagles » Illustrative » (hasting to the prey,) of the swiftness of man's days
They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.
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Eyes » Illustrative » (open,) of spiritual illumination
Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.
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Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.
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Eyes » Illustrative » (anointing with eyesalve,) of healing by the spirit
I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
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Eyes » Illustrative » Of the mind
'The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened, but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!
Feet » Illustrative » (sliding,) of yielding to temptation
A torch -- despised in the thoughts of the secure Is prepared for those sliding with the feet.
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To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.
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When I said, 'Lest they rejoice over me, In the slipping of my foot against me they magnified themselves.
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If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
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Feet » Illustrative » (treading under,) of complete destruction
At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts -- mount Zion!'
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Trodden down all my mighty ones hath the Lord in my midst, He proclaimed against me an appointed time, To destroy my young men, A wine-press hath the Lord trodden, To the virgin daughter of Judah.
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Feet » Illustrative » (washed or dipped in oil,) of abundance
And of Asher he said: -- Blessed with sons is Asher, Let him be accepted by his brethren, And dipping in oil his foot.
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When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.
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Feet » Illustrative » (dipped in blood,) of victory
So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, In the blood of enemies -- the tongue of Thy dogs.'
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Feet » Illustrative » (set in a large place,) of liberty
And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.
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Feet » Illustrative » (set on a rock,) of stability
And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.
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Fig tree » Illustrative » (barren,) of mere professors of religion
and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, 'No more from thee may fruit be -- to the age;' and forthwith the fig-tree withered.
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And he spake this simile: 'A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find; and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?
Fig tree » Illustrative » (sitting under one's own,) of prosperity and peace
And they have sat each under his vine, And under his fig-tree, And there is none troubling, For the mouth of Jehovah of Hosts hath spoken.
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And Judah dwelleth -- and Israel -- in confidence, each under his vine, and under his fig-tree, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, all the days of Solomon.
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Fishes » Illustrative » Of men ignorant of future events
For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these are the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
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Fishes » Illustrative » (bad,) of mere professors
which, when it was filled, having drawn up again upon the beach, and having sat down, they gathered the good into vessels, and the bad they did cast out, so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,
Fishes » Illustrative » (good,) of saints
which, when it was filled, having drawn up again upon the beach, and having sat down, they gathered the good into vessels, and the bad they did cast out, so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,
Fishes » Illustrative » Of the whole population of egypt
And I have put hooks in thy jaws, And I have caused the fish of thy floods to cleave to thy scales, And I have caused thee to come up from the midst of thy floods, And every fish of thy floods to thy scales doth cleave. And I have left thee in the wilderness, Thou and every fish of thy floods, On the face of the field thou dost fall, Thou art not gathered nor assembled, To the beast of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens I have given thee for food.
Fishes » Illustrative » Of those ensnared by the wicked
And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him.
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Fishes » Illustrative » Of the visible church
which, when it was filled, having drawn up again upon the beach, and having sat down, they gathered the good into vessels, and the bad they did cast out,
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Forests » Illustrative » (destroyed by fire,) of destruction of the wicked
For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!
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And the light of Israel hath been for a fire, And his Holy One for a flame, And it hath burned, and devoured his thorn And his brier in one day. And the honour of his forest, and his fruitful field, From soul even unto flesh He doth consume, And it hath been as the fainting of a standard-bearer.
Forests » Illustrative » (a fruitful field turned into,) of the jews rejected by God
Till emptied out on us is the Spirit from on high, And a wilderness hath become a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned.
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Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?
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Forests » Illustrative » Of the unfruitful world
And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of God
For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells -- broken wells, That contain not the waters.
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The hope of Israel is Jehovah, All forsaking Thee are ashamed, And 'My apostates' in the earth are written, For they have forsaken Jehovah, A fountain of living waters.
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For with Thee is a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of spiritual wisdom
Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook.
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A fountain of life is understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (corrupt,) of the natural heart
doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
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but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of eternal life
and He said to me, 'It hath been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely;
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but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the means of grace
And it hath come to pass, in that day, Drop down do the mountains juice, And the hills do flow with milk, And all streams of Judah do go with water, And a fountain from the house of Jehovah goeth forth, And hath watered the valley of Shittim.
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I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (sealed up,) of the church
A garden shut up is my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of a numerous posterity
And Israel doth tabernacle in confidence alone; The eye of Jacob is unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (troubled,) of saints led astray
A spring troubled, and a fountain corrupt, Is the righteous falling before the wicked.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the law of the wise
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of Godly fear
The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of Christ
In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of a good wife
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (always flowing,) of unceasing wickedness of the jews
As the digging of a well, is for its waters, So she hath digged for her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually are sickness and smiting.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » (not failing,) of the church
And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not.
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Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of the holy ghost
he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;' and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Fountains and springs » Illustrative » Of constant supplies of grace
Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains are in Thee!
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Fruits » Illustrative » Of a holy conversation
From the fruit of a man's mouth is his belly satisfied, From the increase of his lips he is satisfied.
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From the fruit of the mouth is one satisfied with good, And the deed of man's hands returneth to him.
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Fruits » Illustrative » Of effects of industry
She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.
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Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!
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Fruits » Illustrative » (bad,) of the conduct and conversation of evil men
'Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.
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so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.
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Fruits » Illustrative » Of converts to the church
There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.
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'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
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Fruits » Illustrative » Of doctrines of Christ
As a citron among trees of the forest, So is my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit is sweet to my palate.
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Fruits » Illustrative » Of works of the spirit
And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;
Fruits » Illustrative » Of the reward of the wicked
Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable -- who doth know it? I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
Fruits » Illustrative » Of good works
so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits. A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.
Fruits » Illustrative » Of the example, &c of the Godly
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls is wise.
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Fruits » Illustrative » Of praise
through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;
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Fruits » Illustrative » Of effects of repentance
bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,
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Fruits » Illustrative » Of the reward of saints
Say ye to the righteous, that it is good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.
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Gardens » Illustrative » Of the church
I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones!
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My beloved went down to his garden, To the beds of the spice, To delight himself in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
Unto a garden of nuts I went down, To look on the buds of the valley, To see whither the vine had flourished, The pomegranates had blossomed --
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Gardens » Illustrative » (well watered,) of spiritual prosperity of the church
And Jehovah doth lead thee continually, And hath satisfied in drought thy soul, And thy bones He armeth, And thou hast been as a watered garden, And as an outlet of waters, whose waters lie not.
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And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul hath been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more.
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Gardens » Illustrative » (enclosed,) of the pleasantness, fruitfulness, and security of the church
A garden shut up is my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.
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Gardens » Illustrative » (when dried up,) of the wicked
For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.
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Garments » Illustrative » (white,) of righteousness
I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
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and his countenance was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow,
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Garments » Illustrative » (washed in wine,) of abundance
Binding to the vine his ass, And to the choice vine the colt of his ass, He hath washed in wine his clothing, And in the blood of grapes his covering;
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Garments » Illustrative » (rolled in blood,) of victory
For every battle of a warrior is with rushing, and raiment rolled in blood, And it hath been for burning -- fuel of fire.
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Gates » Illustrative » (of heaven,) of access to God
And he dreameth, and lo, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and lo, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it; and lo, Jehovah is standing upon it, and He saith, 'I am Jehovah, God of Abraham thy father, and God of Isaac; the land on which thou art lying, to thee I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed. read more.
And lo, I am with thee, and have kept thee whithersoever thou goest, and have caused thee to turn back unto this ground; for I leave thee not till that I have surely done that which I have spoken to thee.' And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;' and he feareth, and saith, 'How fearful is this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.'
And lo, I am with thee, and have kept thee whithersoever thou goest, and have caused thee to turn back unto this ground; for I leave thee not till that I have surely done that which I have spoken to thee.' And Jacob awaketh out of his sleep, and saith, 'Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I knew not;' and he feareth, and saith, 'How fearful is this place; this is nothing but a house of God, and this a gate of the heavens.'
Gates » Illustrative » (of hell,) of satan's power
'And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;
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Gates » Illustrative » (strait,) of the entrance to life
how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!
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Gates » Illustrative » (wide,) of the entrance to ruin
Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;
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Gates » Illustrative » (of the grave,) of death
I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.
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Gates » Illustrative » Of Christ
I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.
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Goat » Illustrative » Of the wicked
Against the shepherds did Mine anger burn, And against the he-goats I lay a charge, For inspected hath Jehovah of Hosts His flock, the house of Judah, And set them as His beauteous horse in battle.
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and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats, and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left.
Goat » Illustrative » Of macedonian empire
And I have been considering, and lo, a young he-goat hath come from the west, over the face of the whole earth, whom none is touching in the earth; as to the young he-goat, a conspicuous horn is between its eyes.
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And the young he-goat, the hairy one, is the king of Javan; and the great horn that is between its eyes is the first king;
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Goat » Illustrative » (flock of,) of the church
Lo, thou art fair, my friend, lo, thou art fair, Thine eyes are doves behind thy veil, Thy hair as a row of the goats That have shone from mount Gilead,
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Grass » Illustrative » Of shortness and uncertainty of life
because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,
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Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
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Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
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A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field: Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people is grass;
Grass » Illustrative » (on tops of houses,) of the wicked
And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn -- before it hath risen up!
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And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up. They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn, before it hath risen up.
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Grass » Illustrative » (refreshed by dew and showers,) of the saints refreshed by grace
He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers -- sprinkling the earth.
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And the remnant of Jacob hath been in the midst of many peoples, As dew from Jehovah -- as showers on the herb, That waiteth not for man, nor stayeth for the sons of men.
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Grass » Illustrative » Of prosperity of the wicked
When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
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hands » Illustrative » (opened,) of liberality
for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.
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Thou dost give to them -- they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand -- they are satisfied with good.
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hands » Illustrative » Of power
and the hand of Jehovah hath been on Elijah, and he girdeth up his loins, and runneth before Ahab, till thine entering Jezreel.
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and Jehovah giveth to Israel a saviour, and they go out from under the hand of Aram, and the sons of Israel dwell in their tents as heretofore;
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hands » Illustrative » (shut,) of illiberality
'When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;
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hands » Illustrative » (lifted up against another,) of rebellion
The matter is not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim -- Sheba son of Bichri his name -- hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman saith unto Joab, 'Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.'
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The Heart » Illustrative » Of Christ
Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!
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My beloved is like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this -- he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.
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The Heart » Illustrative » (sure-footedness of,) of experienced saints
Jehovah the Lord is my strength, And He doth make my feet like hinds, And on my high-places causeth me to tread. To the overseer with my stringed instruments!
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Making my feet like hinds, And on my high places causeth me to stand.
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The Heart » Illustrative » (without pasture,) of the persecuted
And go out from the daughter of Zion doth all her honour, Her princes have been as harts -- They have not found pasture, And they go powerless before a pursuer.
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The Heart » Illustrative » (panting for water,) of afflicted saints longing for God
To the Overseer. -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God. My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?
The Heart » Illustrative » Of converted sinners
Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters, And streams in a desert.
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Harvest » Illustrative » Of the end of the world
suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'
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and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is a full end of the age, and the reapers are messengers.
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Harvest » Illustrative » Of ripeness for wrath
Send ye forth a sickle, For ripened hath harvest, Come in, come down, for filled hath been the press, Overflowed hath wine-presses, For great is their wickedness.
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and another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary crying in a great voice to him who is sitting upon the cloud, 'Send forth thy sickle and reap, because come to thee hath the hour of reaping, because ripe hath been the harvest of the earth;'
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Harvest » Illustrative » Of a time of judgment
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon is as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing -- yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest.
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Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back to the captivity of My people!
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Harvest » Illustrative » Of a time when many are ready to receive the gospel
then saith he to his disciples, 'The harvest indeed is abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he may put forth workmen to His harvest.'
Harvest » Illustrative » (cold in,) of a refreshing message
As a vessel of snow in a day of harvest, So is a faithful ambassador to those sending him, And the soul of his masters he refresheth.
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Harvest » Illustrative » (rain in,) of honor given to fools
As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honour is not comely for a fool.
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Harvest » Illustrative » Of seasons of grace
Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.
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Harvest » Illustrative » (dew in,) of God's protection
For thus said Jehovah unto me, 'I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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Head » Illustrative » Of Christ
and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly,
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and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.
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and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
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Head » Illustrative » (made bald,) of heavy judgments
He hath gone up to Bajith and Dibon, The high places -- to weep, On Nebo and on Medeba Moab howleth, On all its heads is baldness, every beard cut off.
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And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
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Make bald and shave, for thy delightful sons, Enlarge thy baldness as an eagle, For they have removed from thee!
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And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.
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Head » Illustrative » (covered,) of subjection
and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,
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because of this the woman ought to have a token of authority upon the head, because of the messengers;
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Head » Illustrative » Of rulers
and whithersoever sons of men are dwelling, the beast of the field, and the fowl of the heavens, He hath given into thy hand, and hath caused thee to rule over them all; thou art this head of gold.
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And Samuel saith, 'Art not thou, if thou art little in thine own eyes, head of the tribes of Israel? and Jehovah doth anoint thee for king over Israel,
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Head » Illustrative » (lifted up,) of exaltation
yet, within three days doth Pharaoh lift up thy head, and hath put thee back on thy station, and thou hast given the cup of Pharaoh into his hand, according to the former custom when thou wast his butler.
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And now, lifted up is my head, Above my enemies -- my surrounders, And I sacrifice in His tent sacrifices of shouting, I sing, yea, I sing praise to Jehovah.
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Head » Illustrative » (anointed,) of joy and prosperity
And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil.
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Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!
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Head » Illustrative » (lifted up,) of joy and confidence
And Thou, O Jehovah, art a shield for me, My honour, and lifter up of my head.
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and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'
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Head » Illustrative » Of God
and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
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Head » Illustrative » Of chief men
And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day, Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail.
Head » Illustrative » (covered,) of defense and protection
O Jehovah, my Lord, strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of armour.
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Head » Illustrative » Of the chief city of a kingdom
For the head of Aram is Damascus, And the head of Damascus is Rezin, And within sixty and five years Is Ephraim broken from being a people.
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Head » Illustrative » (lifted up,) of pride, &c
For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of heavy judgments
He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
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Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of holy ordinances, &c
'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.
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And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
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Hedges » Illustrative » (broken down,) of the taking away of protection
And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.
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Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
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My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of the way of the slothful
The way of the slothful is as a hedge of briers, And the path of the upright is raised up.
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Hedges » Illustrative » Of God's protection
Hast not Thou made a hedge for him, and for his house, and for all that he hath -- round about?
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Herbs » Illustrative » Of the wicked
And their inhabitants are feeble-handed, They were broken down, and are dried up, They have been the herb of the field, And the greenness of the tender grass, Grass of the roofs, And blasted corn -- before it hath risen up!
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For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.
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Herbs » Illustrative » (dew on,) of grace given to saints
For thus said Jehovah unto me, 'I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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Highways » Illustrative » Of facilities for the restoration of the jews
Pass ye on, pass on through the gates, Prepare ye the way of the people, Raise up, raise up the highway, clear it from stones, Lift up an ensign over the peoples.
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And there hath been a highway, For the remnant of His people that is left, from Asshur, As there was for Israel in the day of his coming up out of the land of Egypt!
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Highways » Illustrative » (made in the deserts,) of facilities for the spread of the gospel
A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.
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Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods.
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Highways » Illustrative » (broad,) of the way to destruction
Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide is the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;
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Highways » Illustrative » (narrow,) of the way of life
how strait is the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!
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Highways » Illustrative » Of the way of holiness
And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the 'way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.
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Highways » Illustrative » Of Christ
Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
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Horns » Illustrative » Of antiChristian powers
and the messenger said to me, 'Wherefore didst thou wonder? I -- I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that is carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.
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And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,
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and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,
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Horns » Illustrative » Of kings
And I have been considering, and lo, a young he-goat hath come from the west, over the face of the whole earth, whom none is touching in the earth; as to the young he-goat, a conspicuous horn is between its eyes.
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The ram that thou hast seen possessing two horns, are the kings of Media and Persia.
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After this I was seeing in the visions of the night, and lo, a fourth beast, terrible and fearful, and exceedingly strong; and it hath iron teeth very great, it hath consumed, yea, it doth break small, and the remnant with its feet it hath trampled; and it is diverse from all the beasts that are before it; and it hath ten horns. I was considering about the horns, and lo, another horn, a little one, hath come up between them, and three of the first horns have been eradicated from before it, and lo, eyes as the eyes of man are in this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.
And I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain ram is standing before the stream, and it hath two horns, and the two horns are high; and the one is higher than the other, and the high one is coming up last.
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Horns » Illustrative » (cutting off,) of destruction of power
And all horns of the wicked I cut off, Exalted are the horns of the righteous!
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Cut down hath been the horn of Moab, And his arm hath been broken, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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He hath cut off in the heat of anger every horn of Israel, He hath turned backward His right hand From the face of the enemy, And He burneth against Jacob as a flaming fire, It hath devoured round about.
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Horns » Illustrative » (pushing with,) of conquests
His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
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Arise, and thresh, O daughter of Zion, For thy horn I make iron, And thy hoofs I make brass, And thou hast beaten small many peoples, And I have devoted to Jehovah their gain, And their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth!
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And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah maketh for himself horns of iron, and saith, 'Thus said Jehovah, By these thou dost push the Aramaeans till they are consumed;'
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Horns » Illustrative » (budding of,) of the commencement or revival of a nation
There I cause to spring up a horn for David, I have arranged a lamp for Mine anointed.
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In that day I cause to shoot up a horn to the house of Israel, And to thee I give an opening of the mouth in their midst, And they have known that I am Jehovah!'
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Horns » Illustrative » (exalting,) of increase of power and glory
Jehovah -- broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'
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And Hannah prayeth, and saith: 'My heart hath exulted in Jehovah, My horn hath been high in Jehovah, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation.
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Horns » Illustrative » Of power of Christ
And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant,
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and I saw, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb hath stood as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God, which are sent to all the earth,
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Horns » Illustrative » Of power of the wicked
And all horns of the wicked I cut off, Exalted are the horns of the righteous!
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Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!
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Horns » Illustrative » Of power of God
Jehovah is my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God is my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.
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And the brightness is as the light, He hath rays out of His hand, And there -- the hiding of His strength.
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Horns » Illustrative » Of power of ephraim, &c
His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
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Horns » Illustrative » (raising up,) of arrogance
I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.' Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)
Horns » Illustrative » (bringing down,) of degradation
Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
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Iron » Illustrative » Of severe affliction
And you hath Jehovah taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people -- an inheritance, as at this day.
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Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,
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Iron » Illustrative » Of severe exercise of power
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron -- as the vessels of the potter they shall be broken -- as I also have received from my Father;
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Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'
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Iron » Illustrative » Of strength
its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron, and part of them of clay.
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And the fourth kingdom is strong as iron, because that iron is breaking small, and making feeble, all things, even as iron that is breaking all these, it beateth small and breaketh.
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Iron » Illustrative » Of a hard barren soil
And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron;
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Iron » Illustrative » (seared with,) of insensibility of conscience
in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,
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Iron » Illustrative » Of stubbornness
From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,
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Jerusalem » Illustrative » Of the church glorified
and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;
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He who is overcoming -- I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and without he may not go any more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that doth come down out of the heaven from my God -- also my new name.
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and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,
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Jerusalem » Illustrative » Of the church
for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now is, and is in servitude with her children, and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
Jerusalem » Illustrative » (its strong position,) of saints under God's protection
Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, And Jehovah is round about His people, From henceforth even unto the age.
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Lambs » Illustrative » Of any thing dear or cherished
'Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do the evil thing in His eyes? Uriah the Hittite thou hast smitten by the sword, and his wife thou hast taken to thee for a wife, and him thou hast slain by the sword of the Bene-Ammon.
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And the poor one hath nothing, Except one little ewe-lamb, Which he hath bought, and keepeth alive, And it groweth up with him, And with his sons together; Of his morsel it eateth, And from his cup it drinketh, And in his bosom it lieth, And it is to him as a daughter;
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Lambs » Illustrative » Of Christ as a sacrifice
on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, 'Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;
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and I saw, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb hath stood as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God, which are sent to all the earth,
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Lambs » Illustrative » Of the lord's people
And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.
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And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
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Lambs » Illustrative » Of weak believers
When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Feed my lambs.'
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As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them: Suckling ones He leadeth.
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Lambs » Illustrative » (patience of,) of the patience of Christ
It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.
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And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: 'As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;
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Lambs » Illustrative » (brought to slaughter,) of the wicked under judgments
I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.
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Lambs » Illustrative » Of purity of Christ
but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --
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Lambs » Illustrative » (consumed in sacrifice,) of complete destruction of the wicked
But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.
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Lambs » Illustrative » (deserted and exposed,) of israel deprived of God's protection
For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.
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Lambs » Illustrative » (among wolves,) of ministers among the unGodly
'Go away; lo, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves;
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Lamps » Illustrative » (put out,) of destruction of the wicked
How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
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Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
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The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of omniscience of Christ
and his body as a beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet as the aspect of bright brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude.
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and his head and hairs white, as if white wool -- as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of the word of God
Nun. A lamp to my foot is Thy word, And a light to my path.
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For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of a succession of heirs
but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,
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and to his son I give one tribe, for there being a lamp to David My servant all the days before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen to Myself to put My name there.
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of God's guidance
For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
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For Thou art my lamp, O Jehovah, And Jehovah doth lighten my darkness.
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of salvation of God
For Zion's sake I am not silent, And for Jerusalem's sake I do not rest, Till her righteousness go out as brightness, And her salvation, as a torch that burneth.
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And it cometh to pass -- the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been -- and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces.
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of severe judgments
And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,
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Lamps » Illustrative » (totally quenched,) of complete destruction of those who curse parents
Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of graces of the holy ghost
and out of the throne proceed do lightnings, and thunders, and voices; and seven lamps of fire are burning before the throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God,
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of spirit of man
The breath of man is a lamp of Jehovah, Searching all the inner parts of the heart.
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of wise rulers
and Abishai son of Zeruiah giveth help to him, and smiteth the Philistine, and putteth him to death; then swear the men of David to him, saying, 'Thou dost not go out again with us to battle, nor quench the lamp of Israel.'
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of glory of the cherubim
As to the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances are as coals of fire -- burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness is to the fire, and out of the fire is going forth lightning.
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Lamps » Illustrative » Of ministers
he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.
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Lebanon » Illustrative » (fragrance of,) of the graces of the church
Thy lips drop honey, O spouse, Honey and milk are under thy tongue, And the fragrance of thy garments Is as the fragrance of Lebanon.
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Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon. Return do the dwellers under his shadow, They revive as corn, and flourish as a vine, His memorial is as wine of Lebanon.
Lebanon » Illustrative » Of the jewish nation
O dweller in Lebanon, making a nest among cedars, How gracious hast thou been when pangs come to thee, Pain -- as of a travailing woman.
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For thus said Jehovah, Concerning the house of the king of Judah: Gilead art thou to Me -- head of Lebanon, If not -- I make thee a wilderness, Cities not inhabited.
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Lebanon » Illustrative » Of great and powerful monarchs
And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!
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Therefore, thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, 'Be not afraid, my people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, With a rod he doth smite thee, And his staff lifteth up against thee, in the way of Egypt.
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Lebanon » Illustrative » (glory of,) of the glory of the church
Flourishing it doth flourish, and rejoice, Yea, with joy and singing, The honour of Lebanon hath been given to it, The beauty of Carmel and Sharon, They -- they see the honour of Jehovah, The majesty of our God.
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The honour of Lebanon unto thee doth come, Fir, pine, and box together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary, And the place of My feet I make honourable.
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Lebanon » Illustrative » Of the temple
Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.
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Lebanon » Illustrative » (mourning of,) of deep affliction
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of his going down to sheol I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, And restrained are many waters, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field have been covered for him.
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Lebanon » Illustrative » Of the gentile world
Is it not yet a very little, And turned hath Lebanon to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field for a forest is reckoned?
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Lebanon » Illustrative » (shaking of its forests,) of prodigious growth of the church
There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.
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Leopard » Illustrative » Of antiChrist
and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.
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Leopard » Illustrative » (tamed,) of the wicked subdued by the gospel
And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.
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Leopard » Illustrative » Of the macedonian empire
'After this I was seeing, and lo, another like a leopard, and it hath four wings of a fowl on its back, and four heads hath the beast, and dominion is given to it.
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Leopard » Illustrative » Of God in his judgments
And I am to them as a lion, As a leopard by the way I look out.
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Lions » Illustrative » Of God in executing judgments
A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.
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I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.
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For I am as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I -- I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer.
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I have set Him till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.
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Lions » Illustrative » Of cruel and powerful enemies
Lo, as a lion he cometh up, Because of the rising of the Jordan, Unto the enduring habitation, But I cause to rest, I cause him to run from off her, And who is chosen? concerning her I lay a charge, For who is like Me? and who conveneth Me? And who is this shepherd who standeth before Me?
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Its roaring is like a lioness, It roareth like young lions, And it howleth, and seizeth prey, And carrieth away safely, and there is none delivering.
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Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.
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Lions » Illustrative » Of imaginary fears of the slothful
The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'
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The slothful hath said, 'A lion is in the way, A lion is in the broad places.'
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Lions » Illustrative » (roaring of,) of a king's wrath
The wrath of a king is a growl as of a young lion, And as dew on the herb his good-will.
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The fear of a king is a growl as of a young lion, He who is causing him to be wroth is wronging his soul.
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Lions » Illustrative » Of brave men
Saul and Jonathan! They are loved and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they have not been parted. Than eagles they have been lighter, Than lions they have been mightier!
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And Benaiah son of Jehoiada (son of a man of valour, great in deeds from Kabzeel), he hath smitten two lion-like men of Moab, and he hath gone down and smitten the lion in the midst of the pit in a day of snow.
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Lions » Illustrative » Of persecutors
and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,
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They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.
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Lions » Illustrative » (tamed,) of the natural man subdued by grace
And cow and bear do feed, Together lie down their young ones, And a lion as an ox eateth straw.
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Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent -- dust is its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!
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Lions » Illustrative » Of the tribe of gad
And of Gad he said: -- Blessed of the Enlarger is Gad, As a lioness he doth tabernacle, And hath torn the arm -- also the crown!
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Lions » Illustrative » Of Christ
and one of the elders saith to me, 'Weep not; lo, overcome did the Lion, who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, to open the scroll, and to loose the seven seals of it;
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Lions » Illustrative » Of boldness of saints
The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.
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Lions » Illustrative » Of the tribe of judah
A lion's whelp is Judah, For prey, my son, thou hast gone up; He hath bent, he hath crouched as a lion, And as a lioness; who causeth him to arise?
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Lions » Illustrative » Of israel
He hath bent, he hath lain down as a lion, And as a lioness: who doth raise him up? He who is blessing thee is blessed, And he who is cursing thee is cursed.'
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Lions » Illustrative » Of God in protecting his church
For thus said Jehovah unto me: 'As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.
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Lions » Illustrative » Of the devil
Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
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Locusts » Illustrative » Of destructive enemies
For a nation hath come up on my land, Strong, and there is no number, Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, And it hath the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
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A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation. Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden is the land before it, And after it a wilderness -- a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it, As the appearance of horses is its appearance, And as horsemen, so they run. read more.
As the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains they skip, As the noise of a flame of fire devouring stubble, As a mighty people set in array for battle. From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness. As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths. And each his brother they press not, Each in his way they go on, If by the missile they fall, they are not cut off. In the city they run to and fro, On the wall they run, Into houses they go up by the windows, They go in as a thief.
As the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains they skip, As the noise of a flame of fire devouring stubble, As a mighty people set in array for battle. From its face pained are peoples, All faces have gathered paleness. As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths. And each his brother they press not, Each in his way they go on, If by the missile they fall, they are not cut off. In the city they run to and fro, On the wall they run, Into houses they go up by the windows, They go in as a thief.
Locusts » Illustrative » Of false teachers of the apostacy
And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,
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Locusts » Illustrative » (destruction of,) of destruction of God's enemies
There consume thee doth a fire, Cut thee off doth a sword, It doth consume thee as a cankerworm! Make thyself heavy as the cankerworm, Make thyself heavy as the locust.
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Locusts » Illustrative » Of unGodly rulers
Thy crowned ones are as a locust, And thy princes as great grasshoppers, That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, The sun hath risen, and it doth flee away, And not known is its place where they are.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking water, by measure) of severe famine
And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, lo, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they have eaten bread by weight and with fear; and water by measure and with astonishment, they do drink;
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And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink it.
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Measures » Illustrative » (weighing the waters in a measure,) of God's infinite wisdom
God hath understood its way, And He hath known its place.
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To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of the stature of Christ,) of perfection
till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,
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Measures » Illustrative » (correcting in measure,) of mitigated afflictions
For with thee am I, An affirmation of Jehovah -- to save thee, For I make an end of all the nations Whither I have scattered thee, Only, of thee I do not make an end, And I have chastised thee in judgment, And do not entirely acquit thee.
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Measures » Illustrative » (measuring the dust of the earth,) of God's greatness
Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters? And the heavens by a span hath meted out, And comprehended in a measure the dust of the earth, And hath weighed in scales the mountains, And the hills in a balance?
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Measures » Illustrative » (opening the mouth without measure,) of the insatiableness of hell
Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one -- into her.
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Measures » Illustrative » (drinking tears in great measure,) of severe afflictions
Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
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Measures » Illustrative » (the measure of our days,) of the shortness of life
Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it is,' I know how frail I am.
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Mills » Illustrative » (ceasing,) of desolation
and voice of harpers, and musicians, and pipers, and trumpeters, may not be heard at all in thee any more; and any artisan of any art may not be found at all in thee any more; and noise of a millstone may not be heard at all in thee any more;
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And I have destroyed from them the voice of rejoicing, and the voice of joy, voice of bridegroom and voice of bride, noise of millstones, and the light of lamps.
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Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, 'O tender and delicate one.' Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
Moon » Illustrative » (withdrawing her light,) of deep calamities
'And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
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For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.
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At their face trembled hath the earth, Shaken have the heavens, Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.
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Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.
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Moon » Illustrative » Of fairness of the church
Who is this that is looking forth as morning, Fair as the moon -- clear as the sun, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts?'
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Moon » Illustrative » Of changeableness of the world
And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars,
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Moon » Illustrative » (becoming blood,) of judgments
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,
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Moon » Illustrative » Of glory of Christ in the church
Thy sun goeth no more in, And thy moon is not removed, For Jehovah becometh to thee a light age-during. And the days of thy mourning have been completed.
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Morning » Illustrative » (breaking forth,) of the glory of the church
Who is this that is looking forth as morning, Fair as the moon -- clear as the sun, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts?'
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Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.
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Morning » Illustrative » (star of,) of the glory of Christ
'I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star!
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Morning » Illustrative » (star of,) of reward of saints
and I will give to him the morning star.
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Morning » Illustrative » (wings of,) of rapid movements
I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,
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Morning » Illustrative » Of the resurrection day
As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.
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Morning » Illustrative » (clouds in,) of the short lived profession of hypocrites
What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness is as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.
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Morning » Illustrative » (spread upon the mountains,) of heavy calamities
A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.
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Moths » Illustrative » (eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Lo, the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Who is he that declareth me wicked? Lo, all of them as a garment wear out, A moth doth eat them.
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For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.
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Moths » Illustrative » Of God in the execution of his judgments
And I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.
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Moths » Illustrative » (making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
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Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
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Mountains » Illustrative » Of difficulties
And Jesus said to them, 'Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,
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Who art thou, O great mountain Before Zerubbabel -- for a plain! And he hath brought forth the top-stone, Cries of Grace, grace -- are to it.'
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Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.
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Mountains » Illustrative » Of the church of God
then broken small together have been the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, and they have been as chaff from the summer threshing-floor, and carried them away hath the wind, and no place hath been found for them: and the stone that smote the image hath become a great mountain, and hath filled all the land.
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And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, Established is the mount of Jehovah's house, Above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the heights, And flowed unto it have all the nations.
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And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed -- to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age. Because that thou hast seen that out of the mountain cut hath been a stone without hands, and it hath beaten small the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king that which is to be after this; and the dream is true, and its interpretation stedfast.
Mountains » Illustrative » (burning,) of destructive enemies
Lo, I am against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks, And given thee for a burnt mountain.
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And the second messenger did sound, and as it were a great mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third of the sea became blood,
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Mountains » Illustrative » (breaking forth into singing,) of exceeding joy
Sing, O heavens, for Jehovah hath wrought, Shout, O lower parts of earth, Break forth, O mountains, with singing, Forest, and every tree in it, For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, And in Israel He doth beautify Himself.
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For with joy ye go forth, And with peace ye are brought in, The mountains and the hills Break forth before you with singing, And all trees of the field clap the hand.
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Mountains » Illustrative » (made waste,) of desolation
Is not Esau Jacob's brother? -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.
I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.
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Mountains » Illustrative » Of persons in authority
Sing, O heavens, for Jehovah hath wrought, Shout, O lower parts of earth, Break forth, O mountains, with singing, Forest, and every tree in it, For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, And in Israel He doth beautify Himself.
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The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness.
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Mountains » Illustrative » (threshing of,) of heavy judgments
Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.
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Mountains » Illustrative » Of proud and haughty persons
And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights,
Mountains » Illustrative » Of God's righteousness
Thy righteousness is as mountains of God, Thy judgments are a great deep. Man and beast Thou savest, O Jehovah.
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Mountains » Illustrative » (dropping new wine,) of abundance
Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And come nigh hath the ploughman to the reaper, And the treader of grapes to the scatterer of seed, And the mountains have dropped juice, And all the hills do melt.
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Music » Illustrative » Of joy and gladness
Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'
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speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
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Music » Illustrative » Of heavenly felicity
And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints, and they sing a new song, saying, 'Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
Music » Illustrative » (ceasing of,) of calamities
Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp. With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.
Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of wicked rulers
And for all cedars of Lebanon, The high and the exalted ones, And for all oaks of Bashan,
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Howl, O fir, for fallen hath the cedar, For their honourable ones were destroyed, Howl, ye oaks of Bashan, For come down hath the fenced forest,
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Oak Trees » Illustrative » (fading,) of the wicked under judgments
For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.
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Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of the church
And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed is its substance!'
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Oak Trees » Illustrative » Of strong and powerful men
And I -- I have destroyed the Amorite from before them, Whose height is as the height of cedars, And strong he is as the oaks, And I destroy his fruit from above, And his roots from beneath.
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Olive Trees » Illustrative » (when wild,) of the gentiles
for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --
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Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of Christ
for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --
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Olive Trees » Illustrative » (gleaning of,) of the remnant of grace
And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of an olive, Two -- three berries on the top of a branch, Four -- five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel!
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When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished,
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Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the righteous
And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,
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Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon.
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Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the two witnesses
and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth; these are the two olive trees, and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand;
Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of the jewish church
'An olive, green, fair, of goodly fruit,' Hath Jehovah called thy name, At the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire against it, And broken have been its thin branches.
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Olive Trees » Illustrative » Probable origin of its being the emblem of peace
and the dove cometh in unto him at even-time, and lo, an olive leaf torn off in her mouth; and Noah knoweth that the waters have been lightened from off the earth.
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Olive Trees » Illustrative » Of children of pious parents
Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.
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Ostriches » Illustrative » Of the unnatural cruelty of the jews in their calamities
Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.
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Ostriches » Illustrative » (companionship with,) of extreme desolation
A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
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Oxen » Illustrative » (prepared for a feast,) of the provision of the gospel
Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Say to those who have been called: Lo, my dinner I prepared, my oxen and the fatlings have been killed, and all things are ready, come ye to the marriage-feasts;
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She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table.
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Oxen » Illustrative » (engaged in husbandry,) of ministers
Happy are ye sowing by all waters, Sending forth the foot of the ox and the ass!
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And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.
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Oxen » Illustrative » (not muzzled in treading corn,) of minister's right to support
for in the law of Moses it hath been written, 'thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care? or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.
Oxen » Illustrative » (led to slaughter,) of saints under persecution
And I am as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, And I have not known That against me they have devised devices: We destroy the tree with its food, and cut him off From the land of the living, And his name is not remembered again.
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Oxen » Illustrative » (stall fed,) of sumptuous living
Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
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Oxen » Illustrative » (led to slaughter,) of a rash youth
He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of peace and prosperity
And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more -- war.
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And He hath judged between many peoples, And given a decision to mighty nations afar off, They have beaten their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation lifteth not up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn war any more.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a course of sin
As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
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Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of the labor ministers
or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of repentance and reformation
For thus said Jehovah, To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: Till for yourselves tillage, And do not sow unto the thorns.
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Plowing » Illustrative » Of a severe course of affliction
And Ephraim is a trained heifer -- loving to thresh, And I -- I have passed over on the goodness of its neck, I cause one to ride Ephraim, Plough doth Judah, harrow for him doth Jacob.
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Plowing » Illustrative » (attention and constancy required in,) of continued devotedness
and Jesus said unto him, 'No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
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Pomegranate-trees » Illustrative » Of saints
Unto a garden of nuts I went down, To look on the buds of the valley, To see whither the vine had flourished, The pomegranates had blossomed --
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We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;
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Pomegranate-trees » Illustrative » (fruit of,) of the graces of the church
As a thread of scarlet are thy lips, And thy speech is comely, As the work of the pomegranate is thy temple behind thy veil,
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As the work of the pomegranate is thy temple behind thy veil.
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Pomegranate-trees » Illustrative » (an orchard of,) of the church
Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits,
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Pools and ponds » Illustrative » (in the wilderness,) of the gifts of the spirit
I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.
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And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.
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Pools and ponds » Illustrative » (turning cities into,) of great desolation
And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
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Pools and ponds » Illustrative » Of nineveh
And Nineveh is as a pool of waters, From of old it is -- and they are fleeing! 'Stand ye, stand;' and none is turning!
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Rain » Illustrative » Of spiritual blessings
Those passing through a valley of weeping, A fountain do make it, Blessings also cover the director.
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A shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it.
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And I have given them, and the suburbs of my hill, a blessing, And caused the shower to come down in its season, Showers of blessing they are.
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Rain » Illustrative » (destructive,) of God's judgments
He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind is the portion of their cup.
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And I have been judged with him, With pestilence and with blood, And an overflowing rain and hailstones, Fire and brimstone I rain on him, and on his bands, And on many peoples who are with him.
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It cometh to pass, at the filling of his belly, He sendeth forth against him The fierceness of His anger, Yea, He raineth on him in his eating.
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Rain » Illustrative » Of Christ in the communication of his graces
He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers -- sprinkling the earth.
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And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'
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Rain » Illustrative » Of the doctrine of faithful ministers
Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,
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Rain » Illustrative » Of the word of God
For, as come down doth the shower, And the snow from the heavens, And thither returneth not, But hath watered the earth, And hath caused it to yield, and to spring up, And hath given seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that for which I sent it.
Rain » Illustrative » (destructive,) of a poor man oppressing the poor
A man -- poor and oppressing the weak, Is a sweeping rain, and there is no bread.
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Rain » Illustrative » Of righteousness
Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.
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Rings » Illustrative » Of the glory of Christ
His hands rings of gold, set with beryl, His heart bright ivory, covered with sapphires,
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Rings » Illustrative » (put on the hands,) of favor
'And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;
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Rivers » Illustrative » (drying up of,) of God's judgments
And He hath passed over through the sea, And hath pressed and smitten billows in the sea, And dried up have been all depths of a flood, And brought down hath been the excellency of Asshur, And the rod of Egypt doth turn aside.
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He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing are Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon is languishing.
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Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.
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The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst. And I armed Egyptians against Egyptians, And they fought, each against his brother, And each against his neighbour, City against city, kingdom against kingdom. And emptied out hath been in its midst the spirit of Egypt. And its counsel I swallow up, And they have sought unto the idols, And unto the charmers, And unto those having familiar spirits, And unto the wizards. read more.
And I have delivered the Egyptians Into the hand of a hard lord, And a strong king doth rule over them, An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts. And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up. And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered. Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been driven away, and is not. And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.
And I have delivered the Egyptians Into the hand of a hard lord, And a strong king doth rule over them, An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts. And failed have waters from the sea, And a river is wasted and dried up. And they have turned away the flowings, Weak and dried up have been brooks of the bulwark, Reed and flag have withered. Exposed things by the brook, by the edge of the brook, And every sown thing of the brook, hath withered, It hath been driven away, and is not. And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.
Rivers » Illustrative » Of the gifts and graces of the holy spirit
A river -- its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
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I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.
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Lo, I am doing a new thing, now it springeth up, Do ye not know it? Yea, I put in a wilderness a way, In a desolate place -- floods. Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people -- My chosen.
Rivers » Illustrative » (overflowing of,) of God's judgments
Lo, a mighty and strong one is to the Lord, As a storm of hail -- a destructive shower, As an inundation of mighty waters overflowing, He cast down to the earth with the hand.
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Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.
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And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.
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Rivers » Illustrative » (fruitfulness of trees planted by,) of the permanent prosperity of saints
And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.
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And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.
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Rivers » Illustrative » Of heavy afflictions
I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me.
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When thou passest into waters, I am with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.
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Rivers » Illustrative » Of the abundance of grace in Christ
And each hath been as a hiding-place from wind, And as a secret hiding-place from inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.
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and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace;
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Rivers » Illustrative » Of abundance
He looketh not on rivulets, Flowing of brooks of honey and butter.
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When washing my goings with butter, And the firm rock is with me rivulets of oil.
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Rivers » Illustrative » (steady course of,) of peace of saints
For thus said Jehovah: 'Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on the knees ye are dandled.
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Rivers » Illustrative » Of people flying from judgments
Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.
Sackcloth » Illustrative » (girding with,) of heavy afflictions
And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
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And it hath been, instead of spice is muck, And instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of curled work, baldness, And instead of a stomacher a girdle of sackcloth.
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Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (covering the heavens with,) of severe judgments
I clothe the heavens with blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (putting of,) of joy and gladness
Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me with joy.
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Salt » Illustrative » (without savor,) of graceless professors
'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.
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The salt is good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season it? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'
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Salt » Illustrative » Of wisdom in speech
your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
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Salt » Illustrative » (pits of,) of desolation
Therefore, I live, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Surely, Moab is as Sodom, And the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, An overrunning of nettles and salt-pits, And a desolation -- unto the age. A residue of My people do seize them, And a remnant of My nation inherit them.
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Salt » Illustrative » Of saints
'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.
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Salt » Illustrative » Of grace in the heart
The salt is good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season it? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'
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Salt » Illustrative » Preparation » The wicked » For destruction
for every one with fire shall be salted, and every sacrifice with salt shall be salted.
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Scorpions » Illustrative » Ministers of antiChrist
And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,
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and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment is as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;
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and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority is to injure men five months;
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Scorpions » Illustrative » Severe scourges
and now, my father laid on you a heavy yoke, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I -- I chastise you with scorpions.'
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Scorpions » Illustrative » Wicked men
And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they are a rebellious house,
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the Sea » Illustrative » (smooth as glass,) of the peace of heaven
and I saw as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who do gain the victory over the beast, and his image, and his mark, and the number of his name, standing by the sea of the glass, having harps of God,
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and before the throne is a sea of glass like to crystal, and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind;
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the Sea » Illustrative » Of heavy afflictions
When thou passest into waters, I am with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.
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What do I testify to thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea is thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?
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the Sea » Illustrative » (covered with waters,) of the diffusion of spiritual knowledge over the earth in the latter days
For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover the bottom of a sea.
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Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the sea.
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the Sea » Illustrative » (roaring,) of hostile armies
And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!
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Bow and javelin they take hold of, Fierce it is, and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea doth sound, And on horses they ride, set in array as a man of war, Against thee, O daughter of Zion.
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the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of devastating armies
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, O Tyre, And have caused to come up against thee many nations, As the sea causeth its billows to come up. And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.
the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of righteousness
O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,
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the Sea » Illustrative » (trouble,) of the wicked
And the wicked are as the driven out sea, For to rest it is not able, And its waters cast out filth and mire.
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the Sea » Illustrative » (waves of,) of the unsteady
and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,
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Seed » Illustrative
And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap;
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In the morning sow thy seed, And at even withdraw not thy hand, For thou knowest not which is right, this or that, Or whether both of them alike are good.
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Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.
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Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap, because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
Serpents » Illustrative » Of the devil
and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,
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and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called 'Devil,' and 'the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.
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And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, 'Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?'
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and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;
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Serpents » Illustrative » (poisonous bite of,) of baneful effects of wine
Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.
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For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.
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Serpents » Illustrative » Of enemies who harass and destroy
For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.
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Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit is a flying saraph.
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Serpents » Illustrative » Of the tribe of dan
Dan is a serpent by the way, An adder by the path, Which is biting the horse's heels, And its rider falleth backward.
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Serpents » Illustrative » Of hypocrites
'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
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Serpents » Illustrative » (sharp tongue of,) of malice of the wicked
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.
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Sheep » Illustrative » (in proneness to wander,) of those who depart from God
All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.
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I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!
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The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.
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Sheep » Illustrative » Of the jews
And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness,
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An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.
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And we, Thy people, and the flock of Thy pasture, We give thanks to Thee to the age, To all generations we recount Thy praise!
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Sheep » Illustrative » Of the people of Christ
He saith to him again, a second time, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, 'Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, 'Tend my sheep.' He saith to him the third time, 'Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, 'Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, 'Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, 'Feed my sheep;
Jesus said therefore again to them, 'Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep; all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them; I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture. read more.
The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep; and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep; and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by mine, according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep, and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd. 'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it; no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.' Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words, and many of them said, 'He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?' others said, 'These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?' And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon, the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, 'Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.' Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me; but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,
The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep; and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep; and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by mine, according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep, and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd. 'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it; no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.' Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words, and many of them said, 'He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?' others said, 'These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?' And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon, the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, 'Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.' Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me; but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,
Sheep » Illustrative » (when found,) of restored sinners
'I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.
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and having found, he doth lay it on his shoulders rejoicing,
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Sheep » Illustrative » (separated from the goats,) of the separation of saints from the wicked
and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats, and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left.
Sheep » Illustrative » (lost,) of the unregenerate
and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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Sheep » Illustrative » (in patience and simplicity,) of patience, &c of Christ
It hath been exacted, and he hath answered, And he openeth not his mouth, As a lamb to the slaughter he is brought, And as a sheep before its shearers is dumb, And he openeth not his mouth.
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Sheep » Illustrative » Of the wicked in their death
As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.
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Sheep » Illustrative » Of those under God's judgment
To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.
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Shepherds » Illustrative » (ignorant and foolish,) of bad ministers
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against the shepherds, And have required My flock from their hand, And caused them to cease from feeding the flock, And no more do the shepherds feed themselves, And I have delivered My flock from their mouth, And they are not to them for food.
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And the dogs are strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they are shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:
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Son of man, prophesy concerning shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and thou hast said unto them: To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, Who have been feeding themselves! The flock do not the shepherds feed?
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A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, To the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.
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Shepherds » Illustrative » Of Christ as the good shepherd
Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.
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And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,
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And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them -- my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd,
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I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by mine,
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Shepherds » Illustrative » Of kings as the leaders of the people
Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, And all my delight He doth perfect, So as to say of Jerusalem, Thou art built, And of the temple, Thou art founded.
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Lo, as a lion he cometh up, Because of the rising of the Jordan, Unto the enduring habitation, But I cause to rest, I cause him to run from off her, And who is chosen? concerning her I lay a charge, For who is like Me? and who conveneth Me? And who is this shepherd who standeth before Me?
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Unto her come do shepherds and their droves, They have stricken tents by her round about, They have fed each in his own station.
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Shepherds » Illustrative » (their care and tenderness,) of tenderness of Christ
As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth them: Suckling ones He leadeth.
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And brought them out from the peoples, And have gathered them from the lands, And brought them unto their own ground, And have fed them on mountains of Israel, By streams, and by all dwellings of the land. With good pasture I do feed them, And on mountains of the high place of Israel is their habitation, There do they lie down in a good habitation, And fat pastures they enjoy on mountains of Israel. I feed My flock, and cause them to lie down, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. read more.
The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.
The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.
Shepherds » Illustrative » (searching out straying sheep,) of Christ seeking the lost
As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness.
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and the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring, saying -- This one doth receive sinners, and doth eat with them.' And he spake unto them this simile, saying, 'What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it? read more.
and having found, he doth lay it on his shoulders rejoicing, and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one. 'I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.
and having found, he doth lay it on his shoulders rejoicing, and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one. 'I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.
Shepherds » Illustrative » Of God as leader of israel
Thou hast led as a flock Thy people, By the hand of Moses and Aaron!
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To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,
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Shepherds » Illustrative » Ministers » Of the gospel
And I have raised for them shepherds, And they have fed them, And they fear no more, nor are affrighted, Nor are they lacking -- an affirmation of Jehovah.
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Ships » Illustrative » (wrecked,) of departure from the faith
having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,
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Ships » Illustrative » Of industrious women
She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.
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Shoes » Illustrative » Of the beauty conferred on saints
'And the father said unto his servants, Bring forth the first robe, and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand, and sandals for the feet;
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As the chorus of 'Mahanaim.' How beautiful were thy feet with sandals, O daughter of Nadib. The turnings of thy sides are as ornaments, Work of the hands of an artificer.
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Shoes » Illustrative » (taken off,) of an ignominious and servile condition
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, 'It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.'
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Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
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Shoes » Illustrative » (thrown over a place,) of subjection
Moab is my pot for washing, over Edom I cast my shoe, Shout, concerning me, O Philistia.
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Moab is a pot for my washing, Upon Edom I cast my shoe, Over Philistia I shout habitually.
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Shoes » Illustrative » Of the preparation of the gospel
and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;
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Shoes » Illustrative » (having blood on,) of being engaged in war and slaughter
And also, thou hast known that which he did to me -- Joab son of Zeruiah -- that which he did to two heads of the hosts of Israel, to Abner son of Ner, and to Amasa son of Jether -- that he slayeth them, and maketh the blood of war in peace, and putteth the blood of war in his girdle, that is on his loins, and in his sandals that are on his feet;
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Silver » Illustrative » Of saints purified by affliction
And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, 'My people it is,' And it saith, 'Jehovah is my God!'
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For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.
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Silver » Illustrative » (dross of,) of the wicked
The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been,
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Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.
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Silver » Illustrative » Of the medo-persian kingdom
This image! its head is of good gold, its breasts and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass;
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And after thee doth rise up another kingdom lower than those, and another third kingdom of brass, that doth rule overall the earth.
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Silver » Illustrative » Of the tongue of the just
The tongue of the righteous is chosen silver, The heart of the wicked -- as a little thing.
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Silver » Illustrative » Of good rulers
Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water. Thy princes are apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
Silver » Illustrative » (reprobate,) of the wicked
'Silver rejected,' they have called to them, For Jehovah hath kicked against them!
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Silver » Illustrative » (labor of seeking for,) of diligence required for attaining knowledge
If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,
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Silver » Illustrative » Of the words of the lord
Sayings of Jehovah are pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold.
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Stars » Illustrative » (withdrawing their light,) of severe judgments
And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.
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For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.
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At their face trembled hath the earth, Shaken have the heavens, Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.
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Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.
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Stars » Illustrative » Of ministers
To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands -- the golden:
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and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance is as the sun shining in its might.
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Stars » Illustrative » Of princes and subordinate governors
And the fourth messenger did sound, and smitten was the third of the sun, and the third of the moon, and the third of the stars, that darkened may be the third of them, and that the day may not shine -- the third of it, and the night in like manner.
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yea, it exerteth unto the host of the heavens, and causeth to fall to the earth of the host, and of the stars, and trampleth them down.
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Stars » Illustrative » (bright and morning star,) of Christ
'I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star!
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Stars » Illustrative » (morning star,) of glory to be given to faithful saints
and I will give to him the morning star.
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Stars » Illustrative » Of Christ
I see it, but not now; I behold it, but not near; A star hath proceeded from Jacob, And a sceptre hath risen from Israel, And hath smitten corners of Moab, And hath destroyed all sons of Sheth.
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Stars » Illustrative » (setting the nest amongst,) of pride and carnal security
If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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Stars » Illustrative » (shining of,) of the reward of faithful ministers
And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.
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Stars » Illustrative » (wandering,) of false teachers
wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.
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Stars » Illustrative » Of angels
In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,
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The sun » Illustrative » Of the glory of Christ
and he was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments did become white as the light,
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And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of the heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,
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and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance is as the sun shining in its might.
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The sun » Illustrative » (darkened,) of severe calamities
The sun is turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, Before the coming of the day of Jehovah, The great and the fearful.
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And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.
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At their face trembled hath the earth, Shaken have the heavens, Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.
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The sun » Illustrative » (its brightness,) of the future glory of saints
And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.
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Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.
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The sun » Illustrative » Of supreme rulers
For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.
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And he dreameth yet another dream, and recounteth it to his brethren, and saith, 'Lo, I have dreamed a dream again, and lo, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me.'
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The sun » Illustrative » (going down at noon,) of premature destruction
And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,
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Languished hath the bearer of seven, She hath breathed out her spirit, Gone in hath her sun while yet day, It hath been ashamed and confounded, And their residue to the sword I give up before their enemies, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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The sun » Illustrative » (its clearness,) of the purity of the church
Who is this that is looking forth as morning, Fair as the moon -- clear as the sun, Awe-inspiring as bannered hosts?'
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The sun » Illustrative » (before or in sight of,) of public ignominy
thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am raising up against thee evil, out of thy house, and have taken thy wives before thine eyes, and given to thy neighbour, and he hath lain with thy wives before the eyes of this sun; for thou hast done it in secret, and I do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'
The sun » Illustrative » (no more going down,) of perpetual blessedness
Thy sun goeth no more in, And thy moon is not removed, For Jehovah becometh to thee a light age-during. And the days of thy mourning have been completed.
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The sun » Illustrative » (its power,) of the triumph of saints
So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him are As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.
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The sun » Illustrative » Of Christ's coming
And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
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The sun » Illustrative » Of God's favor
For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
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Swords » Illustrative » Of severe and heavy calamities
Or -- a sword I bring in against that land, and I have said: Sword, thou dost pass over through the land, and I have cut off from it man and beast --
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A third part with fire thou dost burn in the midst of the city, at the fulness of the days of the siege; and thou hast taken the third part, thou dost smite with a weapon round about it; and the third part thou dost scatter to the wind, and a weapon I draw out after them.
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'Son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said, Thus said Jehovah, say: A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also polished.
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Swords » Illustrative » Of the tongue of the wicked
My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.
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Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
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A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.
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Swords » Illustrative » Of the justice of God
Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.
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If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!
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Swords » Illustrative » (drawing of,) of war and destruction
And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.
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and thou hast said unto the ground of Israel: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, And have brought out My sword from its scabbard, And have cut off from thee righteous and wicked. Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north. And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more.
Swords » Illustrative » Of the word of Christ
And he maketh my mouth as a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He hath hid me, And He maketh me for a clear arrow, In His quiver He hath hid me.
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and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance is as the sun shining in its might.
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Swords » Illustrative » Of the word of God
and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,
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for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;
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Swords » Illustrative » Of the protection of God
O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who is the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'
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Swords » Illustrative » (not departing from one's house,) of perpetual calamity
'And now, the sword doth not turn aside from thy house unto the age, because thou hast despised Me, and dost take the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be to thee for a wife;
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Swords » Illustrative » Of false witnesses
A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, Is the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony.
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Swords » Illustrative » (putting, into its sheath,) of peace and friendship
Ho, sword of Jehovah, till when art thou not quiet? Be removed unto thy sheath, rest and cease.
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Swords » Illustrative » (living by,) of rapine
and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'
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Swords » Illustrative » Of war and contention
'Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;
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Swords » Illustrative » Of the end of the wicked
And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths.
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Swords » Illustrative » Of persecuting spirit of the wicked
A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.
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Swords » Illustrative » Of judicial authority
for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.
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Swords » Illustrative » Of the wicked
Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Thy sword,
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Swords » Illustrative » Of deep mental affliction
(and also thine own soul shall a sword pass through) -- that the reasonings of many hearts may be revealed.'
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Tabernacle » Illustrative » Of the church
A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill?
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of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,
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Enlarge the place of thy tent, And the curtains of thy tabernacles they stretch out, Restrain not -- lengthen thy cords, And thy pins make strong.
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And established in kindness is the throne, And one hath sat on it in truth, in the tent of David, Judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
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and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, 'Lo, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God,
Tabernacle » Illustrative » Of Christ
And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
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And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --
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And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from drought, And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from rain!
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the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing; which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,
Tabernacle » Illustrative » (the holy of holies,) of heaven
Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus,
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which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,
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neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;
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Tabernacle » Illustrative » Of the body
For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands -- age-during -- in the heavens,
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and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding you,
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Tabernacle » Illustrative » (the vail,) of the obscurity of the mosaic dispensation
the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing;
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only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon them.
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Tabernacle » Illustrative » (the vail,) of Christ's body
which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh --
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Tents » Illustrative » (spread out,) of the heavens
He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.
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Tents » Illustrative » (enlarging of,) of the great extension of the church
Enlarge the place of thy tent, And the curtains of thy tabernacles they stretch out, Restrain not -- lengthen thy cords, And thy pins make strong.
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Threshing » Illustrative » Of the judgments of God
For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon is as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing -- yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest.
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In indignation Thou dost tread earth, In anger Thou dost thresh nations.
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O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!'
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Threshing » Illustrative » (dust made by,) of complete destruction
Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.
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for he left not to Jehoahaz of the people except fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Aram hath destroyed them, and maketh them as dust for threshing.
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Threshing » Illustrative » Of the labors of ministers
for in the law of Moses it hath been written, 'thou shalt not muzzle an ox treading out corn;' for the oxen doth God care? or because of us by all means doth He say it? yes, because of us it was written, because in hope ought the plower to plow, and he who is treading ought of his hope to partake in hope.
Threshing » Illustrative » Of the church in her conquests
Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest. Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.
Threshing » Illustrative » (an instrument for, with teeth,) of the church overcoming opposition
Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.
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Threshing » Illustrative » (gathering the sheaves for,) of preparing the enemies of the church for judgments
They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf into a threshing-floor.
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Trees » Illustrative » (good and fruitful,) of saints
To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, 'Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'
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As valleys they have been stretched out, As gardens by a river; As aloes Jehovah hath planted, As cedars by waters;
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so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits. A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.
And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.
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And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.
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Trees » Illustrative » Of Christ
for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.
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'Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;
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in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, is a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are for the service of the nations;
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Trees » Illustrative » Of kings, &c
And He hath gone round the thickets of the forest with iron, And Lebanon by a mighty one falleth!
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And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done it!'
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And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters. Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty, Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that are in the garden of God. read more.
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,
As to the visions of my head on my bed, I was looking, and lo, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height is great: become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land; its leaves are fair, and its budding great, and food for all is in it: under it take shade doth the beast of the field, and in its boughs dwell do the birds of the heavens, and of it fed are all flesh. read more.
'I was looking, in the visions of my head on my bed, and lo, a sifter, even a holy one, from the heavens is coming down. He is calling mightily, and thus hath said, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its budding, move away let the beast from under it, and the birds from off its branches;
'I was looking, in the visions of my head on my bed, and lo, a sifter, even a holy one, from the heavens is coming down. He is calling mightily, and thus hath said, Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its budding, move away let the beast from under it, and the birds from off its branches;
Trees » Illustrative » Of the life and conversation of the righteous
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls is wise.
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A healed tongue is a tree of life, And perverseness in it -- a breach in the spirit.
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Trees » Illustrative » (producing evil fruit,) of the wicked
so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits. A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits. Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:
Trees » Illustrative » Of wisdom
A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.
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Trees » Illustrative » (duration of,) of continued prosperity of saints
They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones.
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Trees » Illustrative » of the elect
And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed is its substance!'
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Trees » Illustrative » (dry,) of useless persons
Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto Jehovah, saying: 'Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His people.' Nor say let the eunuch, 'Lo, I am a tree dried up,'
Trees » Illustrative » (evergreen,) of saints
O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; But -- in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night: And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.
Trees » Illustrative » (shaking of the leaves off,) of the terror of the wicked
And it is declared to the house of David, saying, 'Aram hath been led towards Ephraim,' And his heart and the heart of his people is moved, like the moving of trees of a forest by the presence of wind.
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Trees » Illustrative » (dry,) of the wicked ripe for judgment
for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'
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Trees » Illustrative » (green,) of the innocence of Christ
for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'
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Trees » Illustrative » (barren,) of the wicked
Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.
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Unicorn » Illustrative » Of God as the strength of israel
God is bringing them out from Egypt, As the swiftness of a Reem is to him;
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God is bringing him out of Egypt; As the swiftness of a Reem is to him, He eateth up nations his adversaries, And their bones he breaketh, And with his arrows he smiteth,
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Unicorn » Illustrative » (horns of,) of the strength of the descendants of joseph
His honour is a firstling of his ox, And his horns are horns of a reem; By them peoples he doth push together To the ends of earth; And they are the myriads of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
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Unicorn » Illustrative » (the position of its horns,) of the exaltation of saints
And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil.
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Unicorn » Illustrative » (horns of,) of the strength of powerful enemies
Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!
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Unicorn » Illustrative » Of the wicked
And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.
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Valleys » Illustrative » (filling up of,) of removing all obstructions to the gospel
Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.
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every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become smooth ways;
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Valleys » Illustrative » Of the church of Christ
Unto a garden of nuts I went down, To look on the buds of the valley, To see whither the vine had flourished, The pomegranates had blossomed --
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Valleys » Illustrative » (fruitful and well watered,) of the tents of israel
As valleys they have been stretched out, As gardens by a river; As aloes Jehovah hath planted, As cedars by waters;
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Valleys » Illustrative » (dark,) of affliction and death
Also -- when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff -- they comfort me.
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Veil or veil » Illustrative » Of the spiritual blindness of the jewish nation
but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless -- but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie, and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.
Veil or veil » Illustrative » Of the spiritual blindness of the gentile nations
And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.
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the sacred Veil » Illustrative » Of the flesh of Christ which concealed his divinity
Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him.
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which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh --
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the sacred Veil » Illustrative » (rending of,) of the death of Christ which opened heaven to saints
Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, which way he did initiate for us -- new and living, through the vail, that is, his flesh --
the sacred Veil » Illustrative » Of the obscurity of the mosaic dispensation
the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy places, the first tabernacle having yet a standing;
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The vine » Illustrative » (sitting under one's own) of peace and prosperity
And they have sat each under his vine, And under his fig-tree, And there is none troubling, For the mouth of Jehovah of Hosts hath spoken.
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And Judah dwelleth -- and Israel -- in confidence, each under his vine, and under his fig-tree, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, all the days of Solomon.
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In that day -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Ye do call, each unto his neighbour, Unto the place of the vine, And unto the place of the fig-tree!'
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The vine » Illustrative » Of israel
And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!
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A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.
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Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
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The vine » Illustrative » (its unfruitful branches,) of mere professors
every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
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if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;
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The vine » Illustrative » (its rich clusters,) of the graces of the church
I said, 'Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons,
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The vine » Illustrative » (worthlessness of its wood,) of the unprofitableness, of the wicked
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: As the vine-tree among trees of the forest, That I have given to the fire for fuel, So I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I have set My face against them, From the fire they have gone forth, And the fire doth consume them, And ye have known that I am Jehovah, In My setting My face against them.
The vine » Illustrative » Of Christ
'I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
The vine » Illustrative » (its quick growth,) of the growth of saints in grace
Return do the dwellers under his shadow, They revive as corn, and flourish as a vine, His memorial is as wine of Lebanon.
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The vine » Illustrative » (unfruitful,) of the wicked
An empty vine is Israel, Fruit he maketh like to himself, According to the abundance of his fruit, He hath multiplied for the altars, According to the goodness of his land, They have made goodly standing-pillars.
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The vine » Illustrative » (pruning of,) of God's purifying his people by afflictions
every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
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The vine » Illustrative » (its fruitful branches,) of saints
'I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;
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Vineyards » Illustrative » Of the jewish church
Many shepherds did destroy My vineyard, They have trodden down My portion, They have made My desirable portion Become a wilderness -- a desolation.
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And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, 'By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'
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Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
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In that day, 'A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,
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Vineyards » Illustrative » (gleaning grapes of,) of the elect
When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished,
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Vineyards » Illustrative » (failure of,) of severe calamities
Days and a year ye are troubled, O confident ones, For consumed hath been harvest, The gathering cometh not.
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Walls » Illustrative » Of ordinances as a protection to the church
And now, pray, let me cause you to know, That which I am doing to my vineyard, To turn aside its hedge, And it hath been for consumption, To break down its wall, And it hath been for a treading-place.
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My beloved is like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this -- he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.
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Walls » Illustrative » Of those who afford protection
And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,
a wall they have been unto us both by night and by day, all the days of our being with them, feeding the flock.
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Walls » Illustrative » Of salvation
In that day sung is this song in the land of Judah: 'We have a strong city, Salvation He doth make walls and bulwark.
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Violence is not heard any more in thy land, Spoiling and destruction in thy borders, And thou hast called 'Salvation' thy walls, And thy gates, 'Praise.'
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Walls » Illustrative » (bowing or tottering,) of the wicked under judgments
Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.
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Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.
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Walls » Illustrative » Of the church as a protection to the nation
If she is a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a door, We fashion by her board-work of cedar. I am a wall, and my breasts as towers, Then I have been in his eyes as one finding peace.
Walls » Illustrative » (daubed with untempered mortar,) of the teaching of false prophets
Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk. Say to those daubing with chalk -- It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend, And lo, fallen hath the wall! Doth not one say unto you, Where is the daubing that ye daubed? read more.
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury -- to consume. And I have broken down the wall that ye daubed with chalk, And have caused it to come unto the earth, And revealed hath been its foundation, And it hath fallen, And ye have been consumed in its midst, And ye have known that I am Jehovah. And I have completed My wrath on the wall, And on those daubing it with chalk, And I say to you: The wall is not, And those daubing it are not;
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury -- to consume. And I have broken down the wall that ye daubed with chalk, And have caused it to come unto the earth, And revealed hath been its foundation, And it hath fallen, And ye have been consumed in its midst, And ye have known that I am Jehovah. And I have completed My wrath on the wall, And on those daubing it with chalk, And I say to you: The wall is not, And those daubing it are not;
Walls » Illustrative » (brazen,) of prophets in their testimony against the wicked
Go up to Lebanon, and cry, And in Bashan give forth thy voice, And cry from Abarim, For destroyed have been all loving thee.
Walls » Illustrative » (of partition,) of separation of jews and gentiles
for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down,
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Walls » Illustrative » Of the wealth of the rich in his own conceit
The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.
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Walls » Illustrative » Of the protection of God
And I -- I am to her -- an affirmation of Jehovah, A wall of fire round about, And for honour I am in her midst.
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Walls » Illustrative » (whited,) of hypocrites
then Paul said unto him, 'God is about to smite thee, thou whitewashed wall, and thou -- thou dost sit judging me according to the law, and, violating law, dost order me to be smitten!'
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Watchmen » Illustrative » Of ministers
Whose arrows are sharp, and all its bows bent, Hoofs of its horses as flint have been reckoned, And its wheels as a hurricane!
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Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this is unprofitable to you.
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'On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,
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that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, 'Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me.
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Watchmen » Illustrative » (looking for the morning,) of anxious waiting for God
I hoped for Jehovah -- hoped hath my soul, And for His word I have waited. My soul is for the Lord, More than those watching for morning, Watching for morning!
Watchmen » Illustrative » (blind,) of careless ministers
Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
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Water » Illustrative » Of the gifts and graces of the holy spirit
The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.
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And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.
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For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring.
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he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;' and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Water » Illustrative » (deep,) of severe affliction
To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.
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And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,
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Thou hast caused man to ride at our head. We have entered into fire and into water, And Thou bringest us out to a watered place.
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When thou passest into waters, I am with thee, And into floods, they do not overflow thee, When thou goest into fire, thou art not burnt, And a flame doth not burn against thee.
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Water » Illustrative » (many,) of different nations and people
And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, 'Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters,
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And he saith to me, 'The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;'
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Water » Illustrative » (covering the sea,) of the general diffusion of the knowledge of God
For full is the earth of the knowledge of the honour of Jehovah, As waters cover the bottom of a sea.
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Evil they do not, nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For full hath been the earth with the knowledge of Jehovah, As the waters are covering the sea.
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Water » Illustrative » (its weakness,) of faintness and cowardice
and the men of Ai smite of them about thirty and six men, and pursue them before the gate unto Shebarim, and they smite them in Morad; and the heart of the people is melted, and becometh water.
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All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.
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Water » Illustrative » Of hostile armies
Therefore, lo, the Lord is bringing up on them, The waters of the river, the mighty and the great, (The king of Asshur, and all his glory,) And it hath gone up over all its streams, And hath gone on over all its banks.
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Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
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Water » Illustrative » (rapidly flowing away,) of the career of the wicked
They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
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Light he is on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.
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Water » Illustrative » (noise of many,) of the word of Christ
and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,
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Water » Illustrative » (difficulty of stopping,) of strife and contention
The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
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Water » Illustrative » (many,) of a variety of afflictions
He sendeth from above -- He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters.
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Water » Illustrative » (spilled on the ground,) of death
for we do surely die, and are as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
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Water » Illustrative » (deep,) of the words of the wise of the wise
Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook.
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Water » Illustrative » (deep,) of counsel in the heart
Counsel in the heart of a man is deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.
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Water » Illustrative » Of persecutors
Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul, Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.
Water » Illustrative » (pouring, out of buckets,) of a numerous progeny
He maketh water flow from his buckets, And his seed is in many waters; And higher than Agag is his king, And exalted is his kingdom.
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Water » Illustrative » (its instability,) of a wavering disposition
Unstable as water, thou art not abundant; For thou hast gone up thy father's bed; Then thou hast polluted: My couch he went up!
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Water » Illustrative » (poured out,) of faintness by terror
As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.
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Water » Illustrative » Of persecutions
They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,
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Water » Illustrative » (still,) of the ordinances of the gospel
In pastures of tender grass He causeth me to lie down, By quiet waters He doth lead me.
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Water » Illustrative » (poured out,) of the wrath of God
Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.
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Water » Illustrative » Of the support of God
'Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
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Weights » Illustrative » (heavy,) of the exceeding glory reserved for saints
for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --
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Weights » Illustrative » Of sins
Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,
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Weights » Illustrative » Of the restraints put on the elements
To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.
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Wells » Illustrative » Of the holy spirit in saints
but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
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A fount of gardens, a well of living waters, And flowings from Lebanon!
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Wells » Illustrative » Of wisdom and understanding in man
Deep waters are the words of a man's mouth, The fountain of wisdom is a flowing brook.
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A fountain of life is understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.
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Wells » Illustrative » Of the mouth of the righteous
A fountain of life is the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.
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Wells » Illustrative » (drinking from one's own,) of enjoyment of domestic happiness
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.
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Wells » Illustrative » (a fruitful bough by,) of joseph's numerous posterity
Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;
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Wells » Illustrative » (without water,) of hypocrites
These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;
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Wells » Illustrative » Of the ordinances of the church
And ye have drawn waters with joy Out of the fountains of salvation,
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Wind » Illustrative » (when destructive,) of the judgments of God
By Jehovah of Hosts thou art inspected, With thunder, and with an earthquake, And great noise, hurricane, and whirlwind, And flame of devouring fire.
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Thou winnowest them, and a wind lifteth them up, And a whirlwind scattereth them, And thou -- thou rejoicest in Jehovah, In the Holy One of Israel dost boast thyself.
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In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,
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Wind » Illustrative » Of the operations of the holy spirit
And He saith unto me: 'Prophesy unto the Spirit, prophesy, son of man, and thou hast said unto the Spirit: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: From the four winds come in, O Spirit, and breathe on these slain, and they do live.'
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the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'
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and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,
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Wind » Illustrative » (chaff or stubble before,) of the wicked
They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
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Not so the wicked: But -- as chaff that wind driveth away!
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Wind » Illustrative » (without rain,) of one who boasts of a false gift
Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, Is a man boasting himself in a false gift.
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Wind » Illustrative » Of false doctrines
that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,
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Wind » Illustrative » (bringing forth,) of disappointed expectations
We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.
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Wind » Illustrative » Of molten images
Lo, all of them are vanity, Nought are their works, Wind and emptiness their molten images!'
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Wind » Illustrative » Of iniquity which leads to destruction
And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
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Wind » Illustrative » (feeding upon,) of vain hopes
Ephraim is enjoying wind, And is pursuing an east wind, All the day lying and spoiling he multiplieth, And a covenant with Asshur they make, And oil to Egypt is carried.
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Wind » Illustrative » Of terrors which pursue the soul
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
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Wind » Illustrative » (sowing,) of a course of sin
For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.
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Wind » Illustrative » Of the speeches of the desperate
For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.
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Wind » Illustrative » Of the life of man
Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
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Wine » Illustrative » Of the wrath and judgments of God
And thou hast said unto them this word, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, 'Every bottle is full of wine,' And they have said unto thee: 'Do we not certainly know that every bottle is full of wine?' And thou hast said unto them, 'Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings who sit for David on his throne, And the priests, and the prophets, And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, With drunkenness, And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.
For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine hath foamed, It is full of mixture, and He poureth out of it, Only its dregs wring out, and drink, Do all the wicked of the earth,
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Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.
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'For thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee; And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them. 'And I take the cup out of the hand of Jehovah, and cause all the nations to drink unto whom Jehovah sent me: read more.
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.
Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.
Wine » Illustrative » Of the abominations of the apostacy
because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich.
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with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'
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Wine » Illustrative » Of the blessings of the gospel
She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table.
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'Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine I have mingled.
Wine » Illustrative » Of the blood of Christ
and having taken the cup, and having given thanks, he gave to them, saying, 'Drink ye of it -- all; for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out -- to remission of sins; and I say to you, that I may not drink henceforth on this produce of the vine, till that day when I may drink it with you new in the reign of my Father.'
Wine » Illustrative » Of violence and rapine
For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.
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Wolves » Illustrative » Of wicked rulers
Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
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Its princes in its midst are as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
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Wolves » Illustrative » Of fierce enemies
Therefore smitten them hath a lion out of the forest, A wolf of the deserts doth spoil them, A leopard is watching over their cities, Every one who is going out of them is torn, For many have been their transgressions, Mighty have been their backslidings.
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Swifter than leopards have been its horses, And sharper than evening wolves, And increased have its horsemen, Even its horsemen from afar come in, They fly as an eagle, hasting to consume.
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Wolves » Illustrative » (taming of,) of the change effected by conversion
And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.
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Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent -- dust is its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!
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Wolves » Illustrative » Of false teachers
'But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.
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for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,
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Wolves » Illustrative » Of the wicked
'Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.
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'Go away; lo, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves;
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Wolves » Illustrative » Of the tribe of benjamin
Benjamin! a wolf teareth; In the morning he eateth prey, And at evening he apportioneth spoil.'
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Wolves » Illustrative » Of the devil
and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;
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Woman » Illustrative » (chaste and holy,) of saints
For fragrance are thy perfumes good. Perfume emptied out -- thy name, Therefore have virgins loved thee!
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these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --
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for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,
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Woman » Illustrative » (gloriously arrayed,) of the church of Christ
All glory is the daughter of the king within, Of gold-embroidered work is her clothing.
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and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,
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And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars,
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Woman » Illustrative » (lewd,) of the roman apostacy
and the woman that thou didst see is the great city that is having reign over the kings of the land.'
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and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,
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Woman » Illustrative » (wise,) of saints
and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.
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'Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; and five of them were prudent, and five foolish;
Woman » Illustrative » (at ease and careless,) of a state of carnal security
Women, easy ones, rise, hear my voice, Daughters, confident ones, give ear to my saying,
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Tremble ye women, ye easy ones, Be troubled, ye confident ones, Strip and make bare, with a girdle on the loins,
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Woman » Illustrative » (foolish,) of mere professors
'Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; and five of them were prudent, and five foolish; they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil;
Woman » Illustrative » (delicate,) of backsliding israel
The comely and the delicate one I have cut off, The daughter of Zion.
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Woman » Illustrative » (forsaken,) of israel in her captivity
For, as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Called thee hath Jehovah, Even a youthful wife when she is refused, said thy God.
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Years » Illustrative » (of visitation,) of severe judgments
Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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And they have no remnant, For I bring evil unto the men of Anathoth, The year of their inspection!'
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Years » Illustrative » (acceptable,) of the dispensation of the gospel
To proclaim the year of the good pleasure of Jehovah, And the day of vengeance of our God, To comfort all mourners.
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To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.'
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Years » Illustrative » (coming to,) of manhood
by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh,
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Years » Illustrative » (being full of,) of old age
and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people.
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Years » Illustrative » (of the right hand of the most high,) of prosperity
And I say: 'My weakness is, The changes of the right hand of the Most High.'
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Years » Illustrative » (of the redeemed,) of redemption by Christ
For the day of vengeance is in my heart, And the year of my redeemed hath come.
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Years » Illustrative » (of recompenses,) of judgments
(For a day of vengeance is to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)
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Years » Illustrative » (well stricken in,) of old age
and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.
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