Lexicon :: Strong's H6153 - ʿereḇ

When I lie down I think,

“When will I get up? ”

But the evening drags on endlessly,

and I toss and turn until dawn.

For his anger lasts only a moment,

but his favor, a lifetime.

Weeping may stay overnight,

but there is joy in the morning.

I complain and groan morning, noon, and night,

and he hears my voice.

They return at evening, snarling like dogs

and prowling around the city.

Those who live far away are awed by your signs;

you make east and west shout for joy.

in the morning it sprouts and grows;

by evening it withers and dries up.

Man goes out to his work

and to his labor until evening.

May my prayer be set before you as incense,

the raising of my hands as the evening offering.

at twilight, in the evening,

in the dark of the night.

In the morning sow your seed,

and at evening do not let your hand rest,

because you don’t know which will succeed,

whether one or the other,

or if both of them will be equally good.

In the evening ​— ​sudden terror!

Before morning ​— ​it is gone!

This is the fate of those who plunder us

and the lot of those who ravage us.

“Set them apart for war against her;

rise up, let’s attack at noon.

Woe to us, for the day is passing;

the evening shadows grow long.

“During the day, bring out your bags like an exile’s bags while they look on. Then in the evening go out in their sight like those going into exile.

I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. The next morning I did just as I was commanded.

Now the hand of the LORD had been on me the evening before the fugitive arrived, and he opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.

“The prince should enter from the outside by way of the gate’s portico and stand at the gate’s doorpost while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He will bow in worship at the gate’s threshold and then depart, but the gate is not to be closed until evening.

He said to me,[fn] “For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored.”

while I was praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the first vision, reached me in my extreme weariness, about the time of the evening offering.

Their horses are swifter than leopards

and more fierce[fn] than wolves of the night.

Their horsemen charge ahead;

their horsemen come from distant lands.

They fly like eagles, swooping to devour.

The coastland will belong

to the remnant of the house of Judah;

they will find pasture there.

They will lie down in the evening

among the houses of Ashkelon,

for the LORD their God will return to them

and restore their fortunes.

The[fn] princes within her are roaring lions;

her judges are wolves of the night,

which leave nothing for[fn] the morning.

It will be a unique day known only to the LORD, without day or night, but there will be light at evening.