"Tell the Israelis that starting the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the week-long Festival of Tents to the LORD.

"Let me tell you a riddle," Samson told them. "If you can solve it during this week-long festival, I'll give you 30 linen garments and 30 formal garments.

At that time Solomon also held a week-long festival attended by all of Israel. The assembly was very large, and included people from as far away as Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.

He will make a binding covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he will suspend both the sacrifice and grain offerings. Destructive people will cause desolation on the pinnacle until it is complete and what has been decreed is poured out on the desolator.'"

"Every day for a week, you are to prepare a goat for a sin offering, a young bull, and a ram from the flock, each without defect.

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "The inner, east-facing courtyard is to remain shut during the six working days of the week, but on the Sabbath day it is to be opened, as well as on the day of the New Moon.

Within a week, the Lord handed King Jehoiakim of Judah over to him, along with valuable objects from the house of God. Nebuchadnezzar brought them to the temple of his god in the land of Shinar and stored them in its treasure house.

Fulfill the week for this daughter, then we'll give you the other one in exchange for serving me another seven years."

So Ruth gathered grain out in the field until dusk, and then threshed what she had gathered about a week's supply of barley.

A week later, the child died, and David's staff was afraid to tell him that the child had died. They were telling themselves, "Look, when the child was still alive, we talked to him but he wouldn't listen to what we said. Now what kind of trouble will he bring on himself if we tell him that the child has died?"

A week later, when the king was under the influence of all that wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who served King Ahasuerus,

and sat with Job on the ground for a full week without saying a word, since they could see the great extent of his anguish.

You people, how long will you malign my reputation? How long will you love what is vain and what is false? Interlude

How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I struggle in my soul at night and have sorrow in my heart during the day? How long will my enemy rise up against me?

"Here are the measurements of the altar in cubits that were a cubit and a handbreadth long: its base is a cubit long and a cubit wide, and its border around the edge at one handbreadth is to be the height of the altar.

How long will the wicked, LORD, how long will the wicked continue to triumph?

"You naive ones, how long will you love naivety And how long will scoffers delight in scoffing or fools hate knowledge?"

Listen, my son: accept my words, and you'll live a long, long time.

All of a sudden, we were at the exterior wall that completely surrounded the Temple. The man whom I had observed held a measuring reed that was six cubits long as measured in cubits that were a cubit and a handbreadth long. As he measured the thickness of the wall, he measured out one reed. Its height was also one reed.

Then he measured the Temple. It was 100 cubits long, and the courtyard, its building, and its walls were 100 cubits long.

so that you and your children may live long on the land that the LORD promised to give your ancestors as long as the sky remains above the earth."

When David's friend Hushai the Archite approached Absalom, Hushai greeted Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

Each wing of one cherub was five cubits long, and each wing of the other cherub was five cubits long, so that the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing was ten cubits.

The foundation was made of expensive stone, including large stones ten cubits long and stones eight cubits long.

The wingspan of the cherubim was 20 cubits; the wing of one, five cubits long, touched the wall of the Temple, and its other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.

The wing of the other cherub, five cubits long, touched the opposite wall of the Temple and its other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.

"How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?

As long as I can breathe; as long as God's breath is in my nostrils,

"Then I turned my head to look, and to my surprise, a two-horned ram was standing beside the canal. The two horns grew long, the first one growing longer than the second, with the longer one springing up last.

So be informed and discern that seven weeks and 62 weeks will elapse from the issuance of the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed Commander. The plaza and moat will be rebuilt, though in troubled times.

"Will not all of these ridicule him with mocking scorn? They will say, "Woe to the one who hordes for himself what isn't his. How long will you enrich yourself by extortion?'

And the angel of the LORD replied, "LORD of the Heavenly Armies, how long will it be until you show mercy to Jerusalem and to the cities of Judah, with whom you have been angry for these past seventy years?"

And the angel asked me, "What do you see?" I answered him, "I'm looking at a flying scroll. It's 20 cubits long and ten cubits wide."

He asked life from you, and you gave it to him a long life for ever and ever.

Guide me in your truth and teach me; for you are the God who delivers me. All day long I have waited for you.

And my soul is deeply distressed. But you, LORD, how long do I wait?

It stood 100 cubits long and 50 cubits wide, with a door in the middle.

The outer wall by the side of the chambers toward the outer court and facing the chambers was 50 cubits long.

While the chambers in the outer court were 50 cubits in length, the chambers facing the Temple were 100 cubits long.

He measured a wall that encompassed all four sides, 500 hundred long and 500 wide, dividing between the sacred and common areas.

The hearth is to be twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide; that is, it will be a four-sided square.

It is to have a ledge fourteen cubits long by fourteen cubits wide around the four sides. Its border is to be half a cubit and its base is to be a cubit all around, with its steps facing east."

Also, they are not to shave their heads nor let their hair grow long. Instead, they are certainly to trim the hair on their heads.

"When you divide the land for an inheritance, you are to present a Terumah to the LORD, a consecrated portion of the land 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits wide. Everything within this area is to be treated as holy.

From this area a measure is to be made 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide, which is to contain the sanctuary, the holiest of holy objects.

An area 25,000 cubits long by 10,000 cubits wide is to be set aside for use by the Levite servants of the Temple, 20 parcels for their residential properties.

The land allocation for the city is to be set at 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, adjacent to the sanctuary district, reserved for the entire house of Israel."

all of them the same size; that is, each was 40 cubits long and 30 cubits wide.

"The remainder of the length that borders the holy Terumah is to be 10,000 units long eastward and 10,000 units westward. It is to lie adjacent to the holy Terumah. Its harvest will produce food for those who work in the city.

One asked the man dressed in linen clothes, who was standing above the waters of the river, "How long until the fulfillment of the wonders?'

I told her, "You will remain with me a long time, you won't be promiscuous, you won't be involved with any man, and I'll do the same."

Likewise, the people of Israel will dwell a long time without a king, without a prince, without sacrifice, without sacred pillars, and with neither ephod nor teraphim.

Your calf, Samaria, has been thrown away. My anger is burning against them. How long until they become pure again?

"At that time I will restore David's fallen tent, restoring its torn places. I will restore its ruins, rebuilding it as it was long ago,

Even though the inhabitants of Maroth long for success, nevertheless evil descended from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.

Use your rod to shepherd your people, the flock that belongs to you, that lives alone in the forest of Carmel. Let them find pasture in Bashan and Gilead, as they did long ago.

You will remain true to Jacob, and merciful to Abraham, as you promised our ancestors long ago.

"How long, LORD, must I cry out for help, but you won't listen? I'm crying out to you, "Violence!' but you aren't providing deliverance.

Don't long for night, when people vanish in their place.

My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?"

Like the shattering of my bones are the taunts of my oppressors, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

God, we heard it with our ears; our ancestors told us about what you did in their day a long time ago.

We will praise God all day long; and to your name we will give thanks forever. Interlude

For your sake we are being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.

Who among you desires life, and wants long life in order to see good?

LORD, how long will you just watch? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from these young lions.

My tongue will declare your righteousness and praise you all day long. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David.

I am bent over and walk about greatly bowed down; all day long I go around mourning.

Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.

How long, LORD, will I wait expectantly? I have placed my hope in you.

But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think about me. You are my help and deliverer. My God, do not tarry too long! To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

May they fear you as long as the sun and moon shine from generation to generation.

May he live long and be given gold from Sheba, and may prayer be offered for him continuously, and may he be blessed every day.

May his fame be eternal as long as the sun may his name endure, and may they be blessed through him, and may all nations call him blessed.

For I suffer all day long and I am punished every morning.

Remember your community, whom you purchased long ago, the tribe whom you redeemed for your possession. Remember Mount Zion, where you live.

God, how long will the adversary scorn while the enemy despises your name endlessly?

Get up, God, and prosecute your case remember that you're being scorned by fools all day long.

I thought of ancient times, considering years long past.

I will remember the LORD'S deeds; indeed, I will remember your awesome deeds from long ago.

I will tell a parable, speaking riddles from long ago

God, who is enthroned from long ago, will hear me and humble them. Interlude Because they do not repent, they do not fear God.

Have mercy on me, God, because men have harassed me. Those who oppress me have fought against me all day long.

All day long people distort what I say; all their schemes against me are for evil purposes.

How long will you rage against someone? Would you attack him as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

So I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in your name.

I will establish his dynasty forever, and his throne as long as heaven endures.

How long, LORD, will you hide yourself? Forever? Will your anger continuously burn like fire?

I will satisfy him with long life; I will show him my deliverance. A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath Day

My enemies revile me all day long; those who ridicule me use my name to curse.

You established the earth long ago; the heavens are the work of your hands.

How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

"How long will you judge partially by showing favor on the wicked? Interlude

I desire and long for the Temple courts of the LORD. My heart and body sing for joy to the living God.

Have mercy on me Lord, for I call on you all day long.

My eyes languish on account of my affliction; all day long I call out to you, LORD, I spread out my hands to you.

Like waters, they engulf me all day long; they surround me on all sides.

In your name they rejoice all day long; they exult in your justice.