'Time' in the Bible

So the king’s scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their language as well as to the Jews according to their script and their language.

the Jews established and made a custom for themselves and for their descendants and for all those who allied themselves with them, so that they would not fail to celebrate these two days according to their regulation and according to their appointed time annually.

“It will be accomplished before his time,And his palm branch will not be green.

Who were snatched away before their time,Whose foundations were washed away by a river?

“He delivers the afflicted in their affliction,And opens their ear in time of oppression.

Which I have reserved for the time of distress,For the day of war and battle?

“Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth?Do you observe the calving of the deer?

“Can you count the months they fulfill,Or do you know the time they give birth?

You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger;The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,And fire will devour them.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;He is their strength in time of trouble.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time;O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness,Answer me with Your saving truth.

Do not cast me off in the time of old age;Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

“When I select an appointed time,It is I who judge with equity.

“Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him,And their time of punishment would be forever.

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;For it is time to be gracious to her,For the appointed time has come.

Until the time that his word came to pass,The word of the Lord tested him.

Blessed be the name of the LordFrom this time forth and forever.

But as for us, we will bless the LordFrom this time forth and forever.Praise the Lord!

It is time for the Lord to act,For they have broken Your law.

The Lord will guard your going out and your coming inFrom this time forth and forever.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem,So the Lord surrounds His peopleFrom this time forth and forever.

O Israel, hope in the LordFrom this time forth and forever.

The eyes of all look to You,And You give them their food in due time.

He who curses his father or his mother,His lamp will go out in time of darkness.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again,But the wicked stumble in time of calamity.

Like the cold of snow in the time of harvestIs a faithful messenger to those who send him,For he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Like a bad tooth and an unsteady footIs confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—

A time to give birth and a time to die;A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

A time to kill and a time to heal;A time to tear down and a time to build up.

A time to weep and a time to laugh;A time to mourn and a time to dance.

A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.

A time to search and a time to give up as lost;A time to keep and a time to throw away.

A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;A time to be silent and a time to speak.

A time to love and a time to hate;A time for war and a time for peace.

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

I said to myself, “God will judge both the righteous man and the wicked man,” for a time for every matter and for every deed is there.

Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?

He who keeps a royal command experiences no trouble, for a wise heart knows the proper time and procedure.

For there is a proper time and procedure for every delight, though a man’s trouble is heavy upon him.

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

Let your clothes be white all the time, and let not oil be lacking on your head.

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the warriors, and neither is bread to the wise nor wealth to the discerning nor favor to men of ability; for time and chance overtake them all.

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

Blessed are you, O land, whose king is of nobility and whose princes eat at the appropriate time—for strength and not for drunkenness.

Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.

‘The flowers have already appeared in the land;The time has arrived for pruning the vines,And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.

He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.

Then it will happen on that day that the LordWill again recover the second time with His handThe remnant of His people, who will remain,From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,And from the islands of the sea.

Hyenas will howl in their fortified towersAnd jackals in their luxurious palaces.Her fateful time also will soon comeAnd her days will not be prolonged.

At evening time, behold, there is terror!Before morning they are no more.Such will be the portion of those who plunder usAnd the lot of those who pillage us.

At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the Lord of hostsFrom a people tall and smooth,Even from a people feared far and wide,A powerful and oppressive nation,Whose land the rivers divide—To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, even Mount Zion.

at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your shoes off your feet.” And he did so, going naked and barefoot.

He will swallow up death for all time,And the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces,And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth;For the Lord has spoken.

As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth,She writhes and cries out in her labor pains,Thus were we before You, O Lord.

Now go, write it on a tablet before themAnd inscribe it on a scroll,That it may serve in the time to comeAs a witness forever.

O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for You.Be their strength every morning,Our salvation also in the time of distress.

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

“I have kept silent for a long time,I have kept still and restrained Myself.Now like a woman in labor I will groan,I will both gasp and pant.

‘Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it;Yes, let him recount it to Me in order,From the time that I established the ancient nation.And let them declare to them the things that are comingAnd the events that are going to take place.

“You have heard; look at all this.And you, will you not declare it?I proclaim to you new things from this time,Even hidden things which you have not known.

“Come near to Me, listen to this:From the first I have not spoken in secret,From the time it took place, I was there.And now the Lord God has sent Me, and His Spirit.”

Thus says the Lord,“In a favorable time I have answered You,And in a day of salvation I have helped You;And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people,To restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

“Of whom were you worried and fearfulWhen you lied, and did not remember MeNor give Me a thought?Was I not silent even for a long timeSo you do not fear Me?

“The smallest one will become a clan,And the least one a mighty nation.I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.”

You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness,Who remembers You in Your ways.Behold, You were angry, for we sinned,We continued in them a long time;And shall we be saved?

“For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.

The word of the Lord came to me a second time saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north.”

A wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness,That sniffs the wind in her passion.In the time of her heat who can turn her away?All who seek her will not become weary;In her month they will find her.

Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’For they have turned their back to Me,And not their face;But in the time of their trouble they will say,‘Arise and save us.’

“But where are your godsWhich you made for yourself?Let them arise, if they can save youIn the time of your trouble;For according to the number of your citiesAre your gods, O Judah.

At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of the Lord,’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness in the direction of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse,

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?They were not even ashamed at all;They did not even know how to blush.Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;At the time that I punish them,They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

“At that time,” declares the Lord, “they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

“Even the stork in the skyKnows her seasons;And the turtledove and the swift and the thrushObserve the time of their migration;But My people do not knowThe ordinance of the Lord.

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done?They certainly were not ashamed,And they did not know how to blush;Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down,”Says the Lord.

We waited for peace, but no good came;For a time of healing, but behold, terror!

They are worthless, a work of mockery;In the time of their punishment they will perish.

For thus says the Lord,“Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the landAt this time,And will cause them distress,That they may be found.”

Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their disaster.

Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,

“O Hope of Israel,Its Savior in time of distress,Why are You like a stranger in the landOr like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?

Have You completely rejected Judah?Or have You loathed Zion?Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing?We waited for peace, but nothing good came;And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

The Lord said, “Surely I will set you free for purposes of good;Surely I will cause the enemy to make supplication to youIn a time of disaster and a time of distress.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.

“Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—This time I will make them knowMy power and My might;And they shall know that My name is the Lord.”

Yet You, O Lord, knowAll their deadly designs against me;Do not forgive their iniquityOr blot out their sin from Your sight.But may they be overthrown before You;Deal with them in the time of Your anger!

For each time I speak, I cry aloud;I proclaim violence and destruction,Because for me the word of the Lord has resultedIn reproach and derision all day long.

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

‘Alas! for that day is great,There is none like it;And it is the time of Jacob’s distress,But he will be saved from it.

“At that time,” declares the Lord, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”

Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the house of the king of Judah,

‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Take these deeds, this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware jar, that they may last a long time.”

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying,

In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.

“Thus says the Lord, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

But some of the poorest people who had nothing, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left behind in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at that time.