Quotes about Rest

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.

You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.