Go out, young women of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother placed on him on the day of his wedding – the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
Mark 2:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and they will fast in that day. American Standard Version (1901) But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day. Common English Bible But the days will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. Catholic Public Domain Version But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they shall fast, in those days. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them; and then they shall fast in those days. |
Go out, young women of Zion, and gaze at King Solomon, wearing the crown his mother placed on him on the day of his wedding – the day of his heart’s rejoicing.
Indeed, your husband is your Maker – his name is the Lord of Armies – and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of the whole earth.
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a groom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
Sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate – this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.
Then Jesus said to them, ‘Tonight all of you will fall away because of me, for it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. ,
Jesus said to them, ‘Can the wedding guests be sad while the groom is with them? The time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Jesus said to them, ‘The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, and a worse tear is made.
Then he told the disciples, ‘The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you won’t see it.
But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them #– #then they will fast in those days.’
For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.’
Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.”
I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.’
Nevertheless, I am telling you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away, because if I don’t go away the Counsellor will not come to you. If I go, I will send him to you.
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your name that you have given me, so that they may be one as we are one.
Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in them.
He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.
After he had said this, he was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
When they had appointed elders for them in every church and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Heaven must receive him until the time of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about through his holy prophets from the beginning.
Do not deprive one another #– #except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband #– #to present a pure virgin to Christ.
toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing.
by beatings, by imprisonments, by riots, by labours, by sleepless nights, by times of hunger,
Let us be glad, rejoice, and give him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his bride has prepared herself.
Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me: ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’