Quotes about Beauty
The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
— Jeremiah 11:16
Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.
— Jeremiah 52:23
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
— Lamentations 2:15
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
— Lamentations 4:7
I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.
— Ezekiel 16:7
I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
— Ezekiel 16:11
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
— Ezekiel 16:12
So you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was made of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be queen.
— Ezekiel 16:13
Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
— Ezekiel 16:14
But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.
— Ezekiel 16:15
At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.
— Ezekiel 16:25
Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
— Ezekiel 27:3