Quotes About Transformation

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,

He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.

Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

He sends forth His word and melts them; He unleashes His winds, and the waters flow.

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.

Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth.

When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grain from the hills is gathered,

For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.