Judges 7:19

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.

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.

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

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

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

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.

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

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. He lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

He breaks mighty men in pieces in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,” says Yahweh: “I will not pity, spare, or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.” ’ ”

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

for as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part under the sky, shines to another part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them.

On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

David sent the people out, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

and shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “Even so I will break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again. They will bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.

when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.