Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

He makes his messengers winds; his servants flames of fire.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”