Striking Parallel Passages Between Shakspeare and the Bible

Othello.—Rude am I in speech.

—I. 3.

But though I be rude in speech.—2 Cor. xi. 6.

Witches.—Show his eyes and grieve his heart.—iv. 1.

Consume thine eyes and grieve thine heart.—1 Sam. ii. 33.

Macbeth.—Lighted fools the way to dusty death.

—V. 5.

Thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

—Ps. xxii.

Othello.—I took him by the throat, the circumcised dog,
and smote him.

—V. 2.

I smote him, I caught him by his beard and smote him,
and slew him.—1 Sam. xvii. 35.

Macbeth.—We will die with harness on our back.

—V. 5.

Nicanor lay dead in his harness.

—Maccabees xv. 28.