Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

And he saith, `I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Thy covenant, Thine altars they have thrown down, and Thy prophets they have slain by the sword, and I am left, I, by myself, and they seek my life--to take it.'

and I have left in Israel seven thousand, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that hath not kissed him.'

Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou art , I to-day have brought thee forth.

Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

`Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

Turn from me all ye workers of iniquity, For Jehovah heard the voice of my weeping,

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

What is man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

To the Overseer. --By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one--seeking God.

The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because--at my right hand I am not moved.

Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently:

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys is with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

Therefore I confess Thee among nations, O Jehovah, And to Thy name I sing praise,

Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,

To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' --A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?