Quotes about Swallow

At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Like a fluttering sparrow or darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not come to rest.

On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.

Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.

Who are you? he said. I am the Happy Prince. Why are you weeping then? asked the swallow; you have quite drenched me.

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

If you like to swallow him, for his sister's sake, you may; but I've no sauce that will make him go down.