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

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Old Testament. (continued)
 
10098
    We all do fade as a leaf.
          Isaiah lxiv. 6.
10099
    Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
          Jeremiah vi. 14; viii. 11.
10100
    Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein. 1
          Jeremiah vi. 16.
10101
    Amend your ways and your doings.
          Jeremiah vii. 3; xxvi. 13.
10102
    Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
          Jeremiah viii. 22.
10103
    Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!
          Jeremiah ix. 2.
10104
    Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
          Jeremiah xiii. 23.
10105
    A man of strife and a man of contention.
          Jeremiah xv. 10.
10106
    Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.
          Jeremiah xvii. 1.
10107
    He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.
          Jeremiah xxii. 19.
10108
    As if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
          Ezekiel x. 10.
10109
    The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
          Ezekiel xviii. 2; (Jeremiah xxxi. 29.)
10110
    Stood at the parting of the way.
          Ezekiel xxi. 21.
10111
    Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
          Daniel v. 27.
10112
    According to the law of the Medes and Persians.
          Daniel vi. 12.
10113
    Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
          Daniel xii. 4.
10114
    They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
          Hosea viii. 7.
10115
    I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes.
          Hosea viii. 10.
 
Note 1.
stare super vias antiquas.—The Vulgate. [back]