A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.
If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.
When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.
For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.
A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.
Come back to your rest, O my soul; for the Lord has given you your reward.
It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.
This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.
I will not give sleep to my eyes, or rest to my eyeballs,
Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.
And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.
The seed of his servants will have their part in it, and there the lovers of his name will have rest.
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O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
<A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.
So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.
And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:
And the smoke of their pain goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, who give worship to the beast and his image, and have on them the mark of his name.
And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.
And the rest were put to death with the sword of him who was on the horse, even the sword which came out of his mouth: and all the birds were made full with their flesh.
The rest of the dead did not come to life again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first coming back from the dead.
But to you I say, to the rest in Thyatira, even to those who have not this teaching, and have no knowledge of the secrets of Satan, as they say; I put on you no other weight.
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.
And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.
And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:
For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
So that I may come to you in joy by the good pleasure of God, and have rest with you.
But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.
May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.
And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.
Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.
And she took her rest at his feet till the morning: and she got up before it was light enough for one to see another. And he said, Let it not come to anyone's knowledge that the woman came to the grain-floor.
Then she said, Do nothing now, my daughter, till you see what will come of this; for the man will take no rest till he has put this thing through.
But see to it, when he goes to rest, that you take note of the place where he is sleeping, and go in there, and, uncovering his feet, take your place by him; and he will say what you are to do.
Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest.
As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.
Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
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