Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.
The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.
Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel my glory.
Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.
He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.
Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!
All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.
I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.
But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.
Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.
Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.
And their chief will be of their number; their ruler will come from among themselves; and I will let him be present before me, so that he may come near to me: for who may have strength of heart to come near me? says the Lord.
And I took them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the rulers' room, which was over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door;
And they went and were living in the resting-place of Chimham, which is near Beth-lehem on the way into Egypt,
Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near,
The fate of Moab is near, and trouble is coming on him very quickly.
And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.
And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.
They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.
The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.
If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.
One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.
The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.
He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.
Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.
For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.
Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.
Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about two miles away;
So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.
Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.
The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.
Now there was a garden near the cross, and in the garden a new place for the dead in which no man had ever been put.
So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.
The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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