Quotes about Metaphor
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
- Song of Solomon 5:13
Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
- Song of Solomon 6:7
Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.
- Song of Solomon 7:2
Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
- Song of Solomon 7:3
Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
- Song of Solomon 7:4
Your stature is like a palm tree; your breasts are clusters of fruit.
- Song of Solomon 7:7
I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
- Song of Solomon 7:8
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
- Song of Solomon 8:10
And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”
- Ezekiel 4:12
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
- Ezekiel 23:20
I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
- Hosea 2:12
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
- Matthew 5:13