and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks.
I wait for thy salvation, O Lord.
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides thee, who works for those who wait for him.
“Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,
Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them.
Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.