Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions, Prayer During » For mitigation of troubles
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.
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And if ye invoke as Father, he who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, converse in fear the entire time of your sojourning here,
It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.
LORD, make me to know my end and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how long I am to be of this world.
In those days Hezekiah became sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, came to him and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thy house in order, for thou shalt die, and not live.
For to him that is still among the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.
For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one that is coming.
O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here and be no more.
Cause us to learn this that we might number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Whatever thy hand finds to do, do it with all thy might, for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, where thou goest.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, but if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all; yet if afterwards he remembers the days of darkness, for they shall be many, he shall say that everything that shall have happened to him is vanity.
For the grave shall not confess thee, nor shall death praise thee; nor shall those that go down into the pit wait for thy truth. He who lives, he who lives, even he shall confess thee, as I do this day; the father to the sons shall make known thy truth.
Let your loins be girded about and your lamps burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he comes and knocks, they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those slaves, whom the lord when he comes shall find watching; verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to food and will come forth and serve them.
Ye ought to say instead, If the Lord wills, and if we live, we shall do this or that.