Esperar no Senhor
Esperar no Senhor é ato de fé e confiança. A Bíblia promete que os que esperam em Deus renovam as forças, recebem direção e experimentam a fidelidade divina no tempo certo.
Renovar as forças
Os que esperam no Senhor renovam as forças. Sobem como águias, correm e não se cansam, caminham e não se fatigam.
But they that hope in the Lord, shall change strength, they shall take feathers as eagles; they shall run, and shall not travail; they shall go, and shall not fail.
Therefore the Lord abideth, that he have mercy on you, and therefore he shall be enhanced sparing you; for why God is Lord of doom, blessed be all they that abide him.
Abide thou the Lord, do thou manly; and thine heart be comforted, and suffer thou for the Lord.
I believe to see the goods of the Lord; in the land of living men.
Abide thou the Lord, do thou manly; and thine heart be comforted, and suffer thou for the Lord.
The holy prayer of David. The Lord is my lightening, and mine health; whom shall I dread? The Lord is defender of my life; for whom shall I tremble [or quake]?
The while noisome men nigh on me; for to eat my fleshes. Mine enemies, that troubled me; they were made sick and felled [or fell] down.
Though castles [or tents] stand together against me; mine heart shall not dread. Though battle riseth against me; in this thing I shall have hope.
I asked of the Lord one thing; I shall seek this thing; that I dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I see the will of the Lord; and that I visit his temple.
For he hid me in his tabernacle in the day of evils; he defended me in the hid place of his tabernacle. He enhanced me in a stone;
and now he enhanced mine head over mine enemies. I compassed, and offered in his tabernacle a sacrifice of crying [out]; I shall sing, and I shall say psalm to the Lord.
Lord, hear thou my voice, by which I cried to thee; have thou mercy on me, and hear me.
Mine heart said to thee, My face sought thee; Lord, I shall seek again thy face.
Turn thou not away thy face from me; bow thou not away in wrath from thy servant. Lord, be thou mine helper, forsake thou not me; and, God, mine health, despise thou not me.
For my father and my mother have forsaken me; but the Lord hath taken me up.
Lord, set thou a law to me in thy way; and dress thou me in a rightful [or right] path, for mine enemies.
Betake thou not me into the souls of them, that trouble me; for wicked witnesses have risen against me, and wickedness lied to itself.
I believe to see the goods of the Lord; in the land of living men.
Abide thou the Lord, do thou manly; and thine heart be comforted, and suffer thou for the Lord.
Espera paciente
Esperei com paciência no Senhor e Ele se inclinou para mim. Confie nele e descanse — Ele agirá no tempo certo.
For victory, the psalm of David. I abiding abode the Lord; and he gave attention to me. And he heard my prayers;
and he led out me from the pit of wretchedness, and from the filth of dregs. And he ordained my feet on a stone; and he dressed my goings.
And he sent into my mouth a new song; a song to our God. Many men shall see, and dread; and shall hope in the Lord.
Blessed is the man, of whom the name of the Lord is his hope; and he beheld not into vanities, and into false vengeances.
My Lord God, thou hast made thy marvels many; and in thy thoughts none is, that is like thee toward us. I told and I spake; and they be multiplied above number.
Thou wouldest or desiredest not sacrifice and offering; but thou madest perfectly ears to me. Thou askedest not burnt sacrifice, and other sacrifice for sin;
then I said, Lo! I come. In the head of the book it is written of me,
that I should do thy will; my God, I would also to do it; and thy law in the midst of mine heart.
I told thy rightfulness [or rightwise-ness] in a great church; lo! I shall not refrain my lips, Lord, thou knewest.
I hid not thy rightfulness [or right-wiseness] in mine heart; I said thy truth and thine health. I hid not thy mercy, and thy truth, from a much council.
But thou, Lord, make not far thy merciful doings from me; thy mercy and truth ever[more] take me up.
For why evils, of which is no number, encompassed me; my wicked-nesses have taken me, and I might not, that I should see. Those [or They] be multiplied above the hairs of mine head; and mine heart forsook me.
Lord, please it to thee, that thou deliver me; Lord, behold thou to help me.
Be they shamed, and ashamed together; that seek my life, to take away it. Be they turned aback, and be they shamed or ashamed; that will or desire evils to me.
Our soul suffereth the Lord, that is, abideth patiently his will; for he is our helper and defender.
For our heart shall be glad in him; and we shall have hope in his holy name.
Lord, thy mercy be made on us; as we hoped in thee.
and, Lord, for thy law I abode thee. My soul sustained in his word;
my soul hoped in the Lord. From the morrowtide keeping till to the night;
Nevertheless, my soul, be thou subject to God; for my patience is of him.
Abide thou the Lord, and keep thou his way, and he shall enhance thee, that by heritage thou take the land; when sinners shall perish, thou shalt see.
Confiança e perseverança
Confie no Senhor de todo o coração. Sede pacientes na tribulação — o Senhor é fiel e cumprirá todas as suas promessas.
Have thou trust in the Lord, of all thine heart; and lean thou not to thy prudence.
In all thy ways think on him, and he shall dress thy goings.
And not this only, but also we glory in tribulations, witting that tribulation worketh patience,
and patience proving, and proving hope.
and be comforted in all virtue, by the might of his clearness, in all patience and long abiding with joy,
Therefore, brethren, be ye patient, till to the coming of the Lord. Lo! an earth-tiller abideth [the] precious fruit of the earth, patiently suffering, till he receive timeful and lateful fruit.
And be ye patient, and confirm ye your hearts, for the coming of the Lord shall nigh.
Lo! we bless them that suffered. Ye have heard the patience of Job, and ye saw the end of the Lord, for the Lord is merciful, and doing mercy.
And make ye chaste your souls in obedience of charity, in love of brotherhood; of simple heart love ye together more busily.
And be ye born again, not of corruptible seed, but [of] uncorrupt-ible, by the word of living God, and dwelling into without end.
For each flesh is hay, and all the glory of it is as the flower of hay; the hay dried up, and his flower felled down;
but the word of the Lord dwelleth [into] without end. And this is the word, that is preached to you.
The Lord tarrieth not his promise, as some guess, but he doeth patiently for you, and will not that any man perish [or not willing any to perish], but that all turn again to penance.
Then the kingdom of heavens shall be like to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went out to meet the husband and the wife;
and five of them were fools, and five prudent.
But the five fools took their lamps, and took not oil with them;
but the prudent took oil in their vessels with the lamps.
And whiles the husband tarried, all they napped and slept.
But at midnight a cry was made, Lo! the spouse cometh, go ye out to meet with him [or to meet him].
Then all those virgins rose up, and arrayed their lamps.
And the fools said to the wise, Give ye to us of your oil, for our lamps be quenched.
The prudent answered, and said, Lest peradventure it suffice not to us and to you, go ye rather to men that sell, and buy to you.
And while they went to buy, the spouse came; and those that were ready, entered with him to the weddings; and the gate was shut.
And at the last the other virgins came, and said, Lord, lord, open to us.
And he answered, and said, Truly I say to you, I know you not.
Therefore wake ye, for ye know not the day nor the hour.