Quotes about Contrast
Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
- Isaiah 5:17
“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?
- Isaiah 10:9
He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
- Isaiah 53:2
One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.
- Jeremiah 24:2
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- Lamentations 4:3
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
- Lamentations 4:5
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
- Lamentations 4:5
“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
- Amos 4:7
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.
- Matthew 11:8
When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.
- Matthew 13:26
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.
- Luke 7:25
You did not greet Me with a kiss, but she has not stopped kissing My feet since I arrived.
- Luke 7:45