Judges 20:34

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

The inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’ ”

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.”

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

“As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.