Quotes About Preparation

If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.

I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!

Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ëPut your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.í”

“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.

For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.

ëPrepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.

“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!

Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

“Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ëTake your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.í

Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.

Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.

Bring out your baggage for exile by day, as they watch. Then in the evening, as they watch, go out like those who go into exile.

The sword is appointed to be polished, to be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished, to be placed in the hand of the slayer.

Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.

Put in the pieces of meat, every good piece—thigh and shoulder—fill it with choice bones.