Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.
And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.
If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
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