Housetop Quotes

When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) / Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: / Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: / Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. - Bible

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. - Bible

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. - Bible

There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD. - Bible

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? / Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. - Bible

On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: / And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, / And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: / Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. - Bible

It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fierce. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. - Bible