"Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."

“I thought that he would surely come out to me...wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?

“Come here, I'll kill you and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”

“My son, “I did not call; go back and lie down.”

What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.

“It was the woman you put here with me. She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.”

“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”

“Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

"A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold."

“Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.”

“They asked the grape vine, “Will you be our king?” But the grape vine replied, “My wine brings cheer to people and gods. I won’t stop making wine, just to have my branches wave above the other trees.”