Pro 13:12
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but {when} the desire cometh, {it is} a tree of life.
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And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but {it is} abomination to fools to depart from evil.
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: {but} I hope in thy word.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
The fruit of the righteous {is} a tree of life; and he that winneth souls {is} wise. {winneth: Heb. taketh}
She {is} a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy {is every one} that retaineth her.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit. {lest...: or, for I am become like, etc}
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, {so that} all that hear will laugh with me.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, {and} established my goings. {an...: Heb. a pit of noise}
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I {am} sick of love. {that ye: Heb. what, etc}
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou {art} yet alive.
And she said, Oh my lord, {as} thy soul liveth, my lord, I {am} the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, {was there} the tree of life, which bare twelve {manner of} fruits, {and} yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree {were} for the healing of the nations.
[To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. {Maschil...: or, A Psalm giving instruction of the sons, etc} {panteth: Heb. brayeth}
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
She {is} a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy {is every one} that retaineth her.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but {it is} abomination to fools to depart from evil.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
My soul breaketh for the longing {that it hath} unto thy judgments at all times.
I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law {is} my delight.
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: {there is} nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. {perish: Heb. be consumed}
And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house {is} this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.