Quotes about Symbolism
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
- Isaiah 7:20
the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
- Isaiah 20:2
And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
- Isaiah 29:2
Why are Your clothes red, and Your garments like one who treads the winepress?
- Isaiah 63:2
The men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.
- Jeremiah 2:16
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
- Jeremiah 12:9
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
- Jeremiah 13:1
So I bought a loincloth as the LORD had instructed me, and I put it around my waist.
- Jeremiah 13:2
Then you are to shatter the jar in the presence of the men who accompany you,
- Jeremiah 19:10
“Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”
- Jeremiah 24:3
Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
- Jeremiah 28:10
For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, an eagle swoops down and spreads his wings against Moab.
- Jeremiah 48:40