Book of Jeremiah/the %E2%80%9Cconfessions%E2%80%9D of Jeremiah

Famous quotes containing the words book of, book and/or jeremiah:

    “Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven’s own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter’s field of the newspapers’ back pages.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    “Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.”
    —Bayard Taylor (1825–1875)

    “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Ezekiel, 18:2.

    Proverbial reproach by God, concerning the land of Israel. The same image is used in Jeremiah 31:29.