| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| | | 10079 | | Fasten him as a nail in a sure place. |
| Isaiah xxii. 23. |
| 10080 | | Whose merchants are princes. |
| Isaiah xxiii. 8. |
| 10081 | | A feast of fat things. |
| Isaiah xxv. 6. |
| 10082 | | For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. |
| Isaiah xxviii. 10. |
| 10083 | | We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement. |
| Isaiah xxviii. 15. |
| 10084 | | Their strength is to sit still. |
| Isaiah xxx. 7. |
| 10085 | | Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book. |
| Isaiah xxx. 8. |
| 10086 | | The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. |
| Isaiah xxxv. 1. |
| 10087 | | Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed. |
| Isaiah xxxvi. 6. |
| 10088 | | Set thine house in order. |
| Isaiah xxxviii. 1. |
| 10089 | | All flesh is grass. |
| Isaiah xl. 6. |
| 10090 | | The nations are as a drop of a bucket. |
| Isaiah xl. 15. |
| 10091 | | A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. |
| Isaiah xlii. 3. |
| 10092 | | There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. |
| Isaiah xlviii. 22. |
| 10093 | | He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. |
| Isaiah liii. 7. |
| 10094 | | Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. |
| Isaiah lv. 7. |
| 10095 | | A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. |
| Isaiah lx. 22. |
| 10096 | | Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. |
| Isaiah lxi. 3. |
| 10097 | | I have trodden the wine-press alone. |
| Isaiah lxiii. 3. |
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