Quotes About Verses

a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.

neither verse says the prophecies in Chapters 50 and 51 are about ancient Babylon. On the contrary, a close study of the 99 verses confirms they are for the future end days. Jeremiah 50:40, for example, states that the Daughter of Babylon will be destroyed "as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." That type of dramatic destruction never happened to ancient Babylon, but it will happen to the Daughter of Babylon.

The Daughter of Babylon verses prophesy a destroyed nation with an impotent military (Jeremiah 50:23; 30; 36; 51:3), unable to act after its massive national destruction.

there are 1,239 prophecies in the Old Testament, and 578 prophecies in the New Testament. Those 1,817 prophecies include 8,352 verses. And because there are 31,124 verses in the Bible, those 8,352 verses are about 27 percent of the total, meaning that over one-fourth of the Bible is prophecy. (Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy, by J. Barton Payne).

In the years since the 17th century authors interpreted the verses, primarily those from Revelation, as referring to the Roman Catholic Church. The clash of interpretations is quite stark; do these end times verses, yet unfulfilled on their face, refer to modern day Iraq, do they describe modern day America, or is there another possible nation to which they could refer?

Interpreting the verses as referring to the Catholic Church or, as one writer conjectured – to "corrupt Christianity" in the last days, is fraught with problems, as there is no "mother" of the Church in the world today who would be distressed by its fall.

When the Lord gave to Jeremiah the revelation that he recorded, and we read, in the Book of Jeremiah, He only caused Jeremiah to use the phrase "Daughter of Babylon" twice, once in Jeremiah 50:42, and the second time in Jeremiah 51:33. This is not a casual or accidental use of the name. A close study of Chapters 50 and 51 reveals 99 verses, almost all of which could not apply to ancient Babylon, but do apply to the nation Jeremiah refers to as the Daughter of Babylon.

Well, if you think it nothing to send her laudatory verses masquerading as acrostics, and to ransack all the libraries for the works of her favourite poets, you must be as green as she is!' he said caustically. She could not help laughing. 'Does he do so? I thought they were his favourites too: he is certainly very well read in them.' 'Pea-goose! So would you be, if you made it your business to study them!

Many New Testament verses call for obedience and subservience on the part of slaves (Colossians 3:22–25; Ephesians 6:5–9; I Peter 2:18–25; Titus 2:9–10; I Timothy 6:1–2), and people used the verses to justify human slavery.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

Our Bibles today have chapter and verse divisions. These are extremely helpful, of course, since without them it is very hard indeed to tell someone where to find a passage. But the authors did not write in chapters and verses. One problem with our having them is that they make us think that the next chapter (or even verse) is changing the subject.

When the verses on women are removed, the passage flows neatly without a break. This too suggests that these verses were inserted into the passage later.

I kept the poems in the tower with my hoarded documents of murders. I was constructing my own house of conscience with the transgressions of conscience on exhibit. I found myself poring over the verses for days and nights trying to break their code.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Maybe those verses in Ezekiel about the dry bones coming back to life were actually a prophecy in reference to caffeine.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.

Era la enamorada de todas las novelas, la heroína de todos los dramas, la vaga ella de todos los libros de versos.

Era la enamorada de todas las novelas, la heroína de todos los dramas, el vago "ella" de todos los volúmenes de versos. Encontraba en sus hombros el color ambarino de la odalisca en el baño, tenía el largo corpiño de las castellanas feudales; se parecía también a la mujer pálida de Barcelona ¡Pero por encima de todo era un ángel!

How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!

I couldn't decide on any move, so I recited a few Bible verses, and went home.

Are all Dumnonian warriors so ill-mannered? she asked the table at large in an acid voice. You want warriors to be courtiers? Celwin retorted brusquely. You'd send your precious poets to kill the Franks? And I don't mean by reciting their verses at them, though come to think of it that might be quite effective. He leered at the Queen and the three poets shuddered.

Yo me salgo desnudo a la calle, maduro de versos perdidos. I step naked into the street ripe with lost poems.