Do not long for the cover of night, for that is when people will be destroyed.

不要切慕黑夜，就是众民在本处被除灭的时候。

不要切慕黑夜，就是众民在本处被除灭的时候。

不要切慕黑夜，就是众民在本处被除灭的时候。

不要渴望黑夜来临——就是众民被毁灭的时候。

你不可切慕黑夜来临，就是众人在他们的住处被除灭的时候。

不要切慕黑夜，就是眾民在本處被除滅的時候。

不要切慕黑夜，就是眾民在本處被除滅的時候。

不要切慕黑夜，就是眾民在本處被除滅的時候。

不要渴望黑夜來臨——就是眾民被毀滅的時候。

你不可切慕黑夜來臨，就是眾人在他們的住處被除滅的時候。

不要喘息切慕着黑夜，就是萬族之民在其本處被剪滅的時候。

勿慕黑夜、即眾民見除、而離其所之時、

勿樂死亡、歸於陰府、

毋羨黑夜、即萬民見除於其所之時、即萬民見除於其所之時或作即萬民入深處之時

Do not long for the night, to drag people away from their homes.

Don’t wish for the night to come so you can drag people away from their homes.

Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.

Do not long for the night when nations will disappear from their places.

Do not long for the night, When people vanish in their places.

Do not desire the night, When people are cut off in their place.

Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

Do not long for the night when nations will disappear from their places.

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

In a moment they die. In the middle of the night they pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.

He knows what they do, and in the night he overturns and destroys them.

That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.

For you know quite well that the day of the Lord’s return will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night.When people are saying,“ Everything is peaceful and secure,” then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman’s labor pains begin. And there will be no escape.

And that night at midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn son of the prisoner in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their livestock were killed.

“ But God said to him,‘ You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’

as an apostle to replace Judas in this ministry, for he has deserted us and gone where he belongs.”

“ I wish you would hide me in the grave and forget me there until your anger has passed. But mark your calendar to think of me again!

The wicked are crushed by disaster, but the godly have a refuge when they die.

I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.

When clouds are heavy, the rains come down. Whether a tree falls north or south, it stays where it falls.

“ Oh, why give light to those in misery, and life to those who are bitter?They long for death, and it won’t come. They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.

That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.

I would rather be strangled— rather die than suffer like this.

What if I go to the grave and make my bed in darkness?What if I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?