Quotes about Stones

as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.

a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.

Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.

I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; indeed, they are your lot. Even to them you have poured out a drink offering and offered a grain offering. Should I relent because of these?

Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!

Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

“In the sight of the Jews, pick up some large stones and bury them in the clay of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes.

Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.