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Afflictions, Prayer During » For mitigation of troubles
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.
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And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of your exile here in fear:
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, when no man can work.
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, } Thus says the LORD, { Set your house in order; for you shall die, and not live.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto 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 have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.
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 let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth. The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.
Let your waists be girded about, and your lamps burning; And you yourselves be 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 servants, 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 eat, and will come forth and serve them.
For you ought to say, If the Lord wills, we shall live, and do this, or that.