Bible verses about "midnight" | YLT

¹ He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, ² He is saying of Jehovah, `My refuge, and my bulwark, my God, I trust in Him,' ³ For He delivereth thee from the snare of a fowler, From a calamitous pestilence. ⁴ With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler is His truth. ⁵ Thou art not afraid of fear by night, Of arrow that flieth by day, ⁶ Of pestilence in thick darkness that walketh, Of destruction that destroyeth at noon, ⁷ There fall at thy side a thousand, And a myriad at thy right hand, Unto thee it cometh not nigh. ⁸ But with thine eyes thou lookest, And the reward of the wicked thou seest,
⁹ (For Thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge,) The Most High thou madest thy habitation. ¹⁰ Evil happeneth not unto thee, And a plague cometh not near thy tent, ¹¹ For His messengers He chargeth for thee, To keep thee in all thy ways, ¹² On the hands they bear thee up, Lest thou smite against a stone thy foot. ¹³ On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon. ¹⁴ Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him—I set him on high, Because he hath known My name. ¹⁵ He doth call Me, and I answer him, I am with him in distress, I deliver him, and honour him. ¹⁶ With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

¹ `For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard, <sup>2</sup> and having agreed with the workmen for a denary a day, he sent them into his vineyard. <sup>3</sup> `And having gone forth about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle, ⁴ and to these he said, Go ye—also ye—to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you; ⁵ and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner. <sup>6</sup> And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle? <sup>7</sup> they say to him, Because no one did hire us; he saith to them, Go ye—ye also—to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous ye shall receive. <sup>8</sup> `And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last—unto the first. ⁹ And they of about the eleventh hour having come, did receive each a denary. ¹⁰ `And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary, <sup>11</sup> and having received it, they were murmuring against the householder, saying, <sup>12</sup> that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day—and the heat. <sup>13</sup> `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me? ¹⁴ take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee; ¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

⁵¹ lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

²⁸ And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

⁵ For—a moment is in His anger, Life is in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

¹ Blow ye a trumpet in Zion, And shout ye in My holy hill, Tremble do all inhabitants of the earth, For coming is the day of Jehovah, for it is near!

¹ And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple, ² and Jesus said to them, `Do ye not see all these? verily I say to you, There may not be left here a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.' <sup>3</sup> And when he is sitting on the mount of the Olives, the disciples came near to him by himself, saying, `Tell us, when shall these be? and what is the sign of thy presence, and of the full end of the age?'
⁴ And Jesus answering said to them, `Take heed that no one may lead you astray, <sup>5</sup> for many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall lead many astray, <sup>6</sup> and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet. <sup>7</sup> `For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places; ⁸ and all these are the beginning of sorrows; ⁹ then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name; ¹⁰ and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. ¹¹ `And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray; <sup>12</sup> and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold; <sup>13</sup> but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved; <sup>14</sup> and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive. <sup>15</sup> `Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe) ¹⁶ then those in Judea—let them flee to the mounts; ¹⁷ he on the house-top—let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house; ¹⁸ and he in the field—let him not turn back to take his garments. ¹⁹ `And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days; <sup>20</sup> and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter, nor on a sabbath; <sup>21</sup> for there shall be then great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world till now, no, nor may be. <sup>22</sup> And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened. <sup>23</sup> `Then if any one may say to you, Lo, here is the Christ! or here! ye may not believe; ²⁴ for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen. ²⁵ Lo, I did tell you beforehand. ²⁶ `If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe; <sup>27</sup> for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man; <sup>28</sup> for wherever the carcase may be, there shall the eagles be gathered together. <sup>29</sup> `And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; ³⁰ and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory; ³¹ and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.
³² `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer is nigh, <sup>33</sup> so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh—at the doors. <sup>34</sup> Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass. <sup>35</sup> The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. <sup>36</sup> `And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known—not even the messengers of the heavens—except my Father only; ³⁷ and as the days of Noah—so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man; ³⁸ for as they were, in the days before the flood, eating, and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, till the day Noah entered into the ark, ³⁹ and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man. ⁴⁰ Then two men shall be in the field, the one is received, and the one is left; ⁴¹ two women shall be grinding in the mill, one is received, and one is left. ⁴² `Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come; <sup>43</sup> and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through; <sup>44</sup> because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come. <sup>45</sup> `Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season? ⁴⁶ Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so; ⁴⁷ verily I say to you, that over all his substance he will set him. ⁴⁸ `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come, ⁴⁹ and may begin to beat the fellow-servants, and to eat and to drink with the drunken, ⁵⁰ the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know, ⁵¹ and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

²⁶ And having sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of the Olives,

²³ but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;

²⁹ And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who is in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts.

¹³ `Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

³ `Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

⁷ And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,

¹ `Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; <sup>2</sup> and five of them were prudent, and five foolish; <sup>3</sup> they who were foolish having taken their lamps, did not take with themselves oil; <sup>4</sup> and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps. <sup>5</sup> `And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping, ⁶ and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him. ⁷ `Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps, <sup>8</sup> and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out; <sup>9</sup> and the prudent answered, saying—Lest there may not be sufficient for us and you, go ye rather unto those selling, and buy for yourselves. <sup>10</sup> `And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut; ¹¹ and afterwards come also do the rest of the virgins, saying, Sir, sir, open to us; ¹² and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you. ¹³ `Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.
<sup>14</sup> `For—as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance, ¹⁵ and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately. ¹⁶ `And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents; <sup>17</sup> in like manner also he who received the two, he gained, also he, other two; <sup>18</sup> and he who did receive the one, having gone away, digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. <sup>19</sup> `And after a long time cometh the lord of those servants, and taketh reckoning with them; ²⁰ and he who did receive the five talents having come, brought other five talents, saying, `Sir, five talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other five talents did I gain besides them. <sup>21</sup> `And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord. ²² `And he who also did receive the two talents having come, said, Sir, two talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other two talents I did gain besides them. <sup>23</sup> `His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord. ²⁴ `And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter; <sup>25</sup> and having been afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth; lo, thou hast thine own! <sup>26</sup> `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter! ²⁷ it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase. ²⁸ `Take therefore from him the talent, and give to him having the ten talents, <sup>29</sup> for to every one having shall be given, and he shall have overabundance, and from him who is not having, even that which he hath shall be taken from him; <sup>30</sup> and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.
<sup>31</sup> `And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; ³² and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats, ³³ and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left. ³⁴ `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world; <sup>35</sup> for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; <sup>36</sup> naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me. <sup>37</sup> `Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and we nourished? or thirsting, and we gave to drink? ³⁸ and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around? ³⁹ and when did we see thee infirm, or in prison, and we came unto thee? ⁴⁰ `And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brethren—the least—to me ye did it . <sup>41</sup> Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers; <sup>42</sup> for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink; <sup>43</sup> a stranger I was, and ye did not receive me; naked, and ye put not around me; infirm, and in prison, and ye did not look after me. <sup>44</sup> `Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee? ⁴⁵ `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these, the least, ye did it not to me. ⁴⁶ And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

²⁵ And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,