Quotes About Care

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

Be sure to know the state of your flocks, and pay close attention to your herds;

the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.

You will have plenty of goatsí milk to feed you—food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.

Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.

She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.

When it snows, she has no fear for her household, for they are all clothed in scarlet.

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

For if one falls down, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to help him up!

As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

Catch for us the foxes—the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—for our vineyards are in bloom.

Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing; each has its twin, and not one of them is lost.

We have a little sister, and her breasts are not yet grown. What shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.

Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.

For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.