The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.
My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
Do not give me up, O Lord; O my God, be near to me.
My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.
Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me.
But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;
But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.
Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land.
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.
You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near.
And he said to me, Let not the words of this prophet's book be kept secret, because the time is near.
Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.
But what does it say? The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart: that is, the word of faith of which we are the preachers:
The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.
And Ruth the Moabitess said, Truly, he said to me, Keep near my young men till all my grain is cut.
So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.
Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I.
And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.
And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.
And the women said to Naomi, A blessing on the Lord, who has not let you be this day without a near relation, and may his name be great in Israel.
Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's:
And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.
Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel.
So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.
I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.
The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.
Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.
She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.
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