Jerusalem Temple

Famous quotes containing the words jerusalem and/or temple:

“Comfort, comfort ye my people, speak ye peace, thus saith our God;
comfort those who sit in darkness mourning ‘neath their sorrows’ load.
Speak ye to Jerusalem of the peace that waits for them;
tell her that her sins I cover, and her warfare now is over.”
—Johann G. Olearius (1611–1684)

“The heathen are come into thine inheritance,
And thy temple have they defiled.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)