Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

The people living in darkness have seen a great light; upon those living in the land that lies in the shadow of death, light has dawned.

For, although your people, Isra'el, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with justice.

Adonai ELOHIM-Tzva'ot will bring about this decreed destruction throughout all the land.

But a branch will emerge from the trunk of Yishai, a shoot will grow from his roots.

On that day the root of Yishai, which stands as a banner for the peoples - the Goyim will seek him out, and the place where he rests will be glorious.

but instead, one sees joy and celebrating, killing of oxen, slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat, drinking of wine "Let's eat and drink now, because tomorrow we'll be dead!"

He will swallow up death forever. Adonai ELOHIM will wipe away the tears from every face, and he will remove from all the earth the disgrace his people suffer. For ADONAI has spoken.

So the iniquity of Ya'akov is atoned for by this, and removing his sin produces this result: he chops up all the altar stones like chalk - sacred poles and sun-pillars stand no more.

So with stammering lips, in a foreign accent, [ADONAI] will speak to this people.

He once told this people, "It's time to rest, the exhausted can rest, now you can relax" - but they wouldn't listen.

therefore here is what Adonai ELOHIM says: "Look, I am laying in Tziyon a tested stone, a costly cornerstone, a firm foundation-stone; he who trusts will not rush here and there.

For ADONAI has poured over you a spirit of lethargy; he has closed your eyes (that is, the prophets) and covered your heads (that is, the seers).

Then Adonai said: "Because these people approach me with empty words, and the honor they bestow on me is mere lip-service; while in fact they have distanced their hearts from me, and their 'fear of me' is just a mitzvah of human origin

therefore, I will have to keep shocking these people with astounding and amazing things, until the 'wisdom' of their 'wise ones' vanishes, and the 'discernment' of their 'discerning ones' is hidden away."

A voice cries out: "Clear a road through the desert for ADONAI! Level a highway in the 'Aravah for our God!

Let every valley be filled in, every mountain and hill lowered, the bumpy places made level and the crags become a plain.

Then the glory of ADONAI will be revealed; all humankind together will see it, for the mouth of ADONAI has spoken."

A voice says, "Proclaim!" And I answer, "What should I proclaim?" "All humanity is merely grass, all its kindness like wildflowers:

the grass dries up, the flower fades, when a wind from ADONAI blows on it. Surely the people are grass!

The grass dries up, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever."

Who has measured the Spirit of ADONAI? Who has been his counselor, instructing him?

"Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I take pleasure. I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring justice to the Goyim.

He will not cry or shout; no one will hear his voice in the streets.

He will not snap off a broken reed or snuff out a smoldering wick. He will bring forth justice according to truth;

he will not weaken or be crushed until he has established justice on the earth, and the coastlands wait for his Torah."