"Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern."

The Bible, Old Testament. Ecclesiastes xii. 6.

"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

The Bible, Old Testament. Ecclesiastes xii. 7.

"The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies."

The Bible, Old Testament. Ecclesiastes xii. 11.

"Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh."

The Bible, Old Testament. Ecclesiastes xii. 12.

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man."

The Bible, Old Testament. Ecclesiastes xii. 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 Bible, Old Testament. The Song of Solomon ii. 11, 12.

"The little foxes, that spoil the vines."

The Bible, Old Testament. The Song of Solomon ii. 15.

"Terrible as an army with banners."

The Bible, Old Testament. The Song of Solomon vi. 4, 10.

"Like the best wine, . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak."

The Bible, Old Testament. The Song of Solomon vii. 9.

"Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave."

The Bible, Old Testament. The Song of Solomon viii. 6.

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it."

The Bible, Old Testament. The Song of Solomon viii. 7.

"The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah i. 3.

"The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah i. 5.

"As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah i. 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 more."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah ii. 4; Micah iv. 3.

"In that day a man shall cast his idols . . . to the moles and to the bats."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah ii. 20.

"Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah ii. 22.

"The stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah iii. 1.

"Grind the faces of the poor."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah iii. 15.

"Walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah iii. 16.

"In that day seven women shall take hold of one man."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah iv. 1.

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah v. 20.

"I am a man of unclean lips."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah vi. 5.

"The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah vii. 18.

"Wizards that peep and that mutter."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah viii. 19.

"To the law and to the testimony."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah viii. 20.

"The ancient and honorable."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah 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."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xi. 2.

"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xi. 6.

"Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xiv. 9.

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!"

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xiv. 12.

"The burden of the desert of the sea."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxi. 1.

"Babylon is fallen, is fallen."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxi. 9.

"Watchman, what of the night?"

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxi. 11.

"Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we shall die."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxii. 13.

"Fasten him as a nail in a sure place."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxii. 23.

"Whose merchants are princes."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxiii. 8.

"A feast of fat things."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxv. 6.

"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxviii. 10.

"We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxviii. 15.

"Their strength is to sit still."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxx. 7.

"Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxx. 8.

"The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxxv. 1.

"Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxxvi. 6.

"Set thine house in order."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xxxviii. 1.

"All flesh is grass."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xl. 6.

"The nations are as a drop of a bucket."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xl. 15.

"A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xlii. 3.

"There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah xlviii. 22.

"He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter."

The Bible, Old Testament. Isaiah liii. 7.