Bible verses about "a time for love" | YLT

¹ Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days? ² As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage, ³ So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me. ⁴ If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn. <sup>5</sup> Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome, <sup>6</sup> My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
<sup>7</sup> Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good. <sup>8</sup> The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me—and I am not. <sup>9</sup> Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up. <sup>10</sup> He turneth not again to his house, Nor doth his place discern him again. <sup>11</sup> Also I—I withhold not my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul. <sup>12</sup> A sea-monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard? <sup>13</sup> When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch. ¹⁴ And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me, ¹⁵ And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones. ¹⁶ I have wasted away—not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.
¹⁷ What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart? ¹⁸ And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him? ¹⁹ How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle. ²⁰ I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself—and what? ²¹ Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me—and I am not!

¹³ And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

¹ Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers. ² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root, They go on, yea, they have made fruit, Near art Thou in their mouth, And far off from their reins. ³ And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known me, Thou seest me, and hast tried my heart with Thee, Draw them away as sheep to slaughter, And separate them for a day of slaughter. ⁴ Till when doth the earth mourn, And the herb of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of those dwelling in it, Consumed have been beast and fowl, Because they said, `He doth not see our latter end.' <sup>5</sup> For—with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, In which thou art confident—And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan! <sup>6</sup> For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, Even they dealt treacherously against thee, Even they—they called after thee fully, Trust not in them, when they speak to thee good things.
<sup>7</sup> I have forsaken My house, I have left Mine inheritance, I have given the beloved of My soul Into the hand of her enemies. <sup>8</sup> Mine inheritance hath been to Me as a lion in a forest, She gave forth against Me with her voice, Therefore I have hated her. <sup>9</sup> A speckled fowl is Mine inheritance to Me? Is the fowl round about against her? Come, assemble, every beast of the field, Come ye for food. <sup>10</sup> Many shepherds did destroy My vineyard, They have trodden down My portion, They have made My desirable portion Become a wilderness—a desolation. <sup>11</sup> He hath made it become a desolation, The desolation hath mourned unto Me, Desolated hath been all the land, But there is no one laying it to heart. <sup>12</sup> On all high places in the plain have spoilers come in, For the sword of Jehovah is consuming, From the end of the land even unto the end of the land, There is no peace to any flesh. <sup>13</sup> They sowed wheat, and have thorns reaped, They have become sick—they profit not, And they have been ashamed of your increases, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah.
<sup>14</sup> Thus said Jehovah concerning all my evil neighbours, who are striking against the inheritance that I caused my people—Israel—to inherit: `Lo, I am plucking them from off their ground, And the house of Judah I pluck out of their midst. ¹⁵ And it hath been, after My plucking them out, I turn back, and have pitied them, And I have brought them back, Each to his inheritance, and each to his land. ¹⁶ And it hath come to pass, If they learn well the ways of My people, To swear by My name, `Jehovah liveth,' As they taught My people to swear by Baal, Then they have been built up in the midst of My people. ¹⁷ And if they do not hearken, Then I have plucked up that nation, Plucking up and destroying, An affirmation of Jehovah!'

²⁸ And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

¹⁷ For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

¹⁴ I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

⁶ Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

¹⁶ for God did so love the world, that His Son—the only begotten—He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

¹¹ `I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

⁸ he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

¹ To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: ² A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted. ³ A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up. ⁴ A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip. ⁵ A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing. ⁶ A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away. ⁷ A time to rend, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak. ⁸ A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.