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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Old Testament. (continued)
 
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    Fasten him as a nail in a sure place.
          Isaiah xxii. 23.
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    Whose merchants are princes.
          Isaiah xxiii. 8.
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    A feast of fat things.
          Isaiah xxv. 6.
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    For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.
          Isaiah xxviii. 10.
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    We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.
          Isaiah xxviii. 15.
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    Their strength is to sit still.
          Isaiah xxx. 7.
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    Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book.
          Isaiah xxx. 8.
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    The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
          Isaiah xxxv. 1.
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    Thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed.
          Isaiah xxxvi. 6.
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    Set thine house in order.
          Isaiah xxxviii. 1.
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    All flesh is grass.
          Isaiah xl. 6.
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    The nations are as a drop of a bucket.
          Isaiah xl. 15.
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    A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
          Isaiah xlii. 3.
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    There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
          Isaiah xlviii. 22.
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    He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
          Isaiah liii. 7.
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    Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
          Isaiah lv. 7.
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    A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
          Isaiah lx. 22.
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    Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
          Isaiah lxi. 3.
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    I have trodden the wine-press alone.
          Isaiah lxiii. 3.