My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; he cuts me off from the loom. By nightfall you make an end of me.
2 Peter 1:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I think it is right, as long as I am in this bodily tent, to wake you up with a reminder, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle (tent, body), to stir you up by way of remembrance, American Standard Version (1901) And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Common English Bible I think it’s right that I keep stirring up your memory, as long as I’m alive. Catholic Public Domain Version But I consider it just, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up with admonishments. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. |
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; he cuts me off from the loom. By nightfall you make an end of me.
The Lord roused the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the spirit of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. They began work on the house of the Lord of Armies, their God,
In fact, we are confident, and we would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
Indeed, it is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I have you in my heart, and you are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel.
My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,
Therefore, I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.
Remember those in prison, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.
Therefore I will always remind you about these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.
since I know that I will soon lay aside my tent, as our Lord Jesus Christ has indeed made clear to me.
Dear friends, this is now the second letter I have written to you; in both letters, I want to stir up your sincere understanding by way of reminder,