Quotes about Palaces
The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.
— 2 Chronicles 36:19
All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.
— Psalm 45:8
and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.
— Proverbs 30:28
Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
— Isaiah 13:22
Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
— Isaiah 23:13
For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:
— Jeremiah 33:4
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
— Lamentations 2:5
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
— Lamentations 2:7
Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
— Hosea 8:14
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.
— Hilaire Belloc
In due time the shores of Italy were sighted, and as we stood gazing from the decks, early in the bright summer morning, the stately city of Genoa rose up out of the sea and flung back the sunlight from her hundred palaces.
— Mark Twain