What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow, Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Ezekiel 36:26:
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
(NIV)
A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
(AMP)
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
(KJV)
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O God of our flesh, return us to Your wrath, Let us be evil could we enter in Your grace, and falter on the stony path!
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Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,...
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Mark 4:5:
Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.
(NIV)
Other seed [of the same kind] fell on ground full of rocks, where it had not much soil; and at once it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil
(AMP)
And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
(KJV)
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Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
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