Fondare 340 Risultati per: Comfort In Difficult Times
and the ground of it was that she had been married seven times, but each of her husbands in turn had been killed, at the time of his bedding with her, by an evil spirit that was named Asmodaeus. (Tobit 3, 8)
I hear stories told of this maid, Tobias answered; how she has been betrothed seven times, and to every bridegroom it brought death; how it was a fiend, if the tale be true, that made away with them. (Tobit 6, 14)
The mother’s grief there was no consoling; My son, my son, she cried, why did we ever let thee go on thy travels? The light of our eyes, the support of our old age, our comfort in life, our hope of posterity when we are gone; (Tobit 10, 4)
All in vain did Tobias try to comfort her, with, Peace, woman; never disquiet thyself; there is nought amiss with our son; it was a trusty companion we sent with him. (Tobit 10, 6)
Comfort she would have none; no day passed but she would rise from her place and view the landscape all about, or roam the streets, hoping she might get some rumour, some distant glimpse of his return. (Tobit 10, 7)
and hand on this charge to your children, that they should do what the law enjoins and give alms freely, that they should keep God ever in mind, offering him faithful praise at all times, and with all their strength. (Tobit 14, 11)
And Eliachim, the Lord’s high priest, went about everywhere among the Israelite folk with words of comfort. (Judith 4, 11)
All that night the king could not sleep; so he would have the annals of his reign brought to him, the record of times past, and they began to read these out in his presence. (Esther 6, 1)
To his wife Zares and to all his friends he told the story of what befell; but from wife and counsellors he could get no comfort. If he is of the Jewish race,✻ they said, this Mardochaeus who has begun to outmatch thee, thou wilt never get the better of him; yield to him thou must. (Esther 6, 13)
griefs borne, and strange vicissitudes. And the Jews pledged themselves and their children, with all who in after times should seek admission to their way of worship, to observe two days in each year, at the fixed time by this record determined.✻ (Esther 9, 27)
Ever since they brought me here, comfort thy handmaid had none, Lord God of Abraham, save in thee! (Esther 14, 18)
And this custom his sons had in feasting, each invited the rest in turn; at such times they would send for their three sisters to eat and drink beside them. (Job 1, 4)
