Quotes About Time

on the day the keepers of the house tremble and the strong men stoop, when those grinding cease because they are few and those watching through windows see dimly,

when the doors to the street are shut and the sound of the mill fades away, when one rises at the sound of a bird and all the daughters of song grow faint,

Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,

Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylonís time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.

I will make the sunís shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.í” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

I declare the end from the beginning, and ancient times from what is still to come. I say, ëMy purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.í

The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.

From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?

“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylonís seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.

“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,

And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiahís eleventh year, the city was breached.

There they will cry out: ëPharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.í

Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORDís vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—