Quotes About Symbolism

So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.

“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”

Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”

This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,

So I took the cup from the LORDís hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,

Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

“In the sight of the Jews, pick up some large stones and bury them in the clay of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaohís palace at Tahpanhes.

Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn?

Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her.

When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.

and within it was the form of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: They had a human form,

but each had four faces and four wings.

Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, gleaming like polished bronze.

Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four living creatures had faces and wings,

The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.

Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.