They thrust him from light into darkness, and chase him out of the world.
1 Samuel 2:9 - The Scriptures 2009 “He guards the feet of His lovingly-commited ones, but the wrong are silent in darkness, for man does not become mighty by power. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He will keep the feet of his saints, And the wicked shall be silent in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He will guard the feet of His godly ones, but the wicked shall be silenced and perish in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. American Standard Version (1901) He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail. Common English Bible God guards the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked die in darkness because no one succeeds by strength alone. Catholic Public Domain Version He will preserve the feet of his holy ones, and the impious will be silenced in darkness. For no man will prevail by his own strength. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness: because no man shall prevail by his own strength. |
They thrust him from light into darkness, and chase him out of the world.
And you shall know that your tent is in peace, and shall visit your tent and not sin,
For יהוה knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wrong comes to naught.
And brought them out with silver and gold, And among His tribes no one faltered.
He does not allow your foot to be moved; He who watches over you does not slumber.
יהוה preserves all those loving Him, But all the wrong ones He destroys.
Do not let me be ashamed, O יהוה, For I have called upon You; Let the wrong be ashamed; Let them be silenced in She’ol.
For יהוה loves right-ruling, And does not forsake His lovingly-committed ones; They shall be guarded forever, But the seed of the wrongdoers is cut off.
When I said, “My foot has slipped,” Your loving-commitment, O יהוה, supported me.
You who love יהוה, hate evil! He guards the lives of His lovingly-committed ones, He delivers them out of the hand of the wrong.
To watch over the paths of right-ruling, And the way of His lovingly-commited ones He guards.
For יהוה is at your side, And He shall guard your foot from being caught.
All his days he also eats in darkness, and with much sorrow and sickness and wrath.
I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty, nor even bread to the wise, nor even riches to men of understanding, nor even favour to men of knowledge – for time and chance meets with them all.
“I, יהוה, do guard it, I water it every moment; lest any hurt it, I guard it night and day.
“Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of Kasdim! For no more do they call you Mistress of Reigns.
Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the walled cities, and let us be silent there. For יהוה our Elohim has let us perish and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against יהוה.
Thus said יהוה, “Let not the wise boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty boast in his might, nor let the rich boast in his riches,
But with an overwhelming flood He makes a complete end of the place of Ninewĕh, and darkness does pursue His enemies.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and trouble, a day of waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
And he answered and said to me, “This is the word of יהוה to Zerubbaḇel, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ said יהוה of hosts.
but the sons of the reign shall be cast out into outer darkness – there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
And we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those who are in the Torah, so that every mouth might be stopped, and all the world come under judgment before Elohim.
Indeed, He loves the peoples, all His set-apart ones are in Your hand. And they, they sat down at Your feet, receiving Your Words.
who are protected by the power of Elohim through belief, for a deliverance ready to be revealed in the last time,
These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a storm, to whom the blackest darkness is kept forever.
Yehuḏah, a servant of יהושע Messiah, and brother of Ya‛aqoḇ, to those who are called, set-apart by Elohim the Father, and preserved in יהושע Messiah:
wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shame, straying stars for whom blackness of darkness is kept forever.
Beloved ones, making all haste to write to you concerning our common deliverance, I felt the necessity to write to you urging you to earnestly contend for the belief which was once for all delivered to the set-apart ones.
“And now my master, as יהוה lives and as your being lives, since יהוה has withheld you from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies be as Naḇal, even those seeking evil against my master.