Quotes About Urgency

Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he took longer than the time allotted him.

And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”

So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boyís face.”

Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the charioteer is driving like Jehu son of Nimshi—he is driving like a madman!”

So the king of Israel called one of his officials and said, “Bring Micaiah son of Imlah at once.”

So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the house of your God. Do it quickly.” The Levites, however, did not make haste.

When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw his leprous forehead, they rushed him out. Indeed, he himself hurried to get out, because the LORD had afflicted him.

There the archers shot King Josiah, who said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded!”

“Hurry,” commanded the king, “and bring Haman, so we can do as Esther has requested.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.

Trembling with excitement, he devours the distance; he cannot stand still when the ramís horn sounds.

Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.

Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.

Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

For the choirmaster. Of David. To bring remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me!

But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.

Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.

A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.

A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.

This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,