Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. and Ecclesiastes xii. 7. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies. 11. Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. 12. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. 13. For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. The Song of Solomon ii, 11, 12. 15. vi. 4, 10. The little foxes, that spoil the vines. Terrible as an army with banners. Like the best wine, . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. vii. 9. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. viii. 6. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. 7. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib. Isaiah i. 3. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. 5. As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers. 8. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any ii. 4; Micah iv. 3. more. In that day a man shall cast his idols moles and to the bats. .. to the 20 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils. Isaiah ii. 22. The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. Grind the faces of the poor. iii. 1. 15. Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go. 16. In that day seven women shall take hold of one man. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. I am a man of unclean lips. iv. 1. v. 20. vi. 5. The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the utter most parts of the rivers of Egypt. Wizards that peep and that mutter. The ancient and honorable. vii. 18. viii. 19. 20. ix. 15. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. xi. 2. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. 6. Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming. xiv. 9. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of xxii. 13 Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die. Fasten him as a nail in a sure place. Whose merchants are princes. A feast of fat things. For precept must be upon precept, precept cept; line upon line, line upon line; here a there a little. Isaiah xxii. 23. xxiii. 8. xxv. 6. upon prelittle, and xxviii. 10. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement. Their strength is to sit still. 15. xxx. 7. Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book. The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 8. xxxv. 1. Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed. Set thine house in order. All flesh is grass. The nations are as a drop of a bucket. xxxvi. 6. xxxviii. 1. xl. 6. 15. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. xlii. 3. There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. xlviii. 22. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. liii. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. lv. 7. A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. lx. 22. Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heavi ness. I have trodden the wine-press alone. lxi. 3. lxiii. 3. We all do fade as a leaf. Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Isaiah lxiv. 6. Jeremiah vi. 14; viii. 11. Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.1 vi. 16. Amend your ways and your doings. vii. 3; xxvi. 13. viii. 22. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men! ix. 2. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? A man of strife and a man of contention. xiii. 23. xv. 10. Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass. As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. xvii. 1. xxii. 19. Ezekiel x. 10. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. xviii. 2, (Jeremiah xxxi. 29.) xxi. 21. Stood at the parting of the way. ing. Daniel v. 27. According to the law of the Medes and Persians. vi. 12. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. xii. 4. They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Hosea viii. 7. I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes. 1 Stare super vias antiquas. The Vulgate. 10. Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Multitudes in the valley of decision. Joel ii. 28. iii. 14. They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree. Micah iv. 4. Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. Habakkuk ii. 2. Zechariah i. 5. Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? For who hath despised the day of small things? Prisoners of hope. I was wounded in the house of my friends. iv. 10. ix. 12. xiii. 6. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. Malachi iv. 2. Great is truth, and mighty above all things.1 Unto you is paradise opened. 1 Esdras iv. 41. 2 Esdras viii. 52. I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out. xiv. 25. So they [Azarias and Tobias] went forth both, and the young man's dog went with them. Tobit v. 16. So they went their way, and the dog went after them. Our time is a very shadow that passeth away. xi. 4. Wisdom of Solomon ii. 5. Let us crown ourselves, with rosebuds before they be withered. ii. 8. Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age. The Vulyate. 1 Magna est veritas et prævalet. iv. 8. |