My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,
Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break 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 cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!
“Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me.
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.
Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord! I have fled to you for refuge.
For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.” O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
And David said, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
“Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.
And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the Lord. I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”
And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Arise, O Lord! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,
The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.”
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