Acts 27:30

Running under the lee of a small island called Clauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat.

After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

But we must run aground on a certain island.”

But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,