For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.
Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.
How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.
If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.
How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?
When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
Then the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, say so clearly.
And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.
When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings.
You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.
Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,
And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.
And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.
And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in them, and now they are cracked as you see; and our clothing and our shoes have become old because of our very long journey here.
Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;
So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.
Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food;
And if a woman has a flow of blood for a long time, not at the time when she generally has it, or if the flow goes on longer than the normal time, she will be unclean while the flow of blood goes on, as she is at other normal times.
If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.
And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;
And the people were waiting for Zacharias and were surprised because he was in the Temple for such a long time.
But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine;
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?
Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;
Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.
Now when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, having for a long time had a desire to see him, for he had had accounts of him, and was hoping to see some wonders done by him.
And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead.
And Jesus said, O generation without faith and false in heart, how long will I have to be with you and put up with you? let your son come here.
And in his teaching he said, Be on your watch against the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes and be respected in the market-places,
Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.
And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.
And, as if honouring him, they said, Long life to the King of the Jews!
And Pilate was surprised that he was dead; and, sending for the captain, he put a question to see if he had been dead for long.
And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.
And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.
And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.
And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.
But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;
Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them.
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