The man said, *Let me go, for the day breaks.* Ya`akov said, *I won't let you go, unless you bless me.*
1 Kings 18:43 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up and looked and said, There is nothing. Elijah said, Go again seven times. American Standard Version (1901) And he said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. Common English Bible He said to his assistant, “Please get up and look toward the sea.” So the assistant did so. He said, “I don’t see anything.” Seven times Elijah said, “Do it again.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he said to his servant, "Ascend, and gaze out toward the sea." And when he had ascended, and had contemplated, he said, "There is nothing." And again, he said to him, "Return seven times." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he said to his servant: Go up, and look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said: There is nothing. And again he said to him: Return seven times. |
The man said, *Let me go, for the day breaks.* Ya`akov said, *I won't let you go, unless you bless me.*
So Ach'av went up to eat and to drink. Eliyahu went up to the top of Karmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
It happened at the seventh time, that he said, *Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea.* He said, Go up, tell Ach'av, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you.
Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
LORD, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the holy ones:
Seven Kohanim shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark: and the seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the Kohanim shall blow the trumpets.