Bible: Hebrew Judges

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew judges, hebrew and/or judges:

    He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in
    a lordly dish.
    She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s
    hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sis’e-ra, she smote off his
    head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
    —Bible: Hebrew Judges (l. V, 25–26)

    Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled:t hou takest away their
    breath, they die, and return to their dust.
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CIV (l. CIV, 29)

    The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings of the Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)