Sentences with phrase «broken cistern»

But when Cubby listened to the fountain, it only made her think of the broken cistern in the toilets under the gym, mossy and dank and smelling like a dead body mixed up with old cartons of rotting milk.

Be appalled, O heavens, at this, be shocked, be utterly desolate,... for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit... For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.»

Not exact matches

Ecclesiastes 12:6 - 7 6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Ecclesiastes 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust (sic) in oppression and perverseness... This iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall... which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip water out of the cistern!»

Thus says the Holy One of Israel, «Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them; therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant; and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.»

They are fortunate to have a good well, rare in this area, and is designed to slowly fill the cistern without breaking the salinity barrier.

Samara Scott Backwater (broken glass, cistern bloo, milk, sandwich bags, necklace, clingfilm, bedroom floor sweepings, hair gel, bingo chips, sellotape, noodles), 2017 Photographic print Edition of 40 45 x 33 cm

Samara Scott, Backwater (broken glass, cistern bloo, milk, sandwich bags, necklace, clingfilm, bedroom floor sweepings, hair gel, bingo chips, sellotape, noodles), 2017.