533 verses about Worrying

Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink. For why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? So would you endanger my head with the king.”

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

The king said to them, “I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”

I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

Then king Belshazzar was greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

You shall eat, but not be satisfied. Your humiliation will be within you. You will store up, but not save; and that which you save I will give up to the sword.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

But how could I receive the money, since I don’t know him?”

But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, “Why have you sent away our child? Isn’t he the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?

Tobit said to her, “Don’t worry, my sister. He will return safe and sound, and your eyes will see him.

Now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest I go in and die, even as those before me. For a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear lest I die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them.”

But the angel said to him, “Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she will be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she will be given you as wife.

My father counts the days; and if I wait long, he will be sorely grieved.

Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come,

he said, “Is he perchance detained? Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?”

He was sorely grieved.

But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said,

Tobit saih to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.”

And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.”

Anna sat looking around toward the path for her son.

They were exceedingly afraid before him, and were troubled for Jerusalem, and for the temple of the Lord their God;

But the children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, were troubled exceedingly, and everyone said to his neighbor, “Now these men will lick up the face of all the earth. Neither the high mountains, nor the valleys, nor the hills will be able to bear their weight.

because all the inhabitants of Bethulia get their water from there. Then thirst will kill them, and they will give up their city. Then we and our people will go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will encamp upon them, to watch that not one man gets out of the city.

The children of Israel cried to the Lord their God, for their spirit fainted; for all their enemies had surrounded them. There was no way to escape out from among them.

All the army of Asshur remained around them, their footmen and their chariots and their horsemen, thirty-four days. All their vessels of water ran dry for all the inhabitants of Bethulia.

But if these days pass, and no help comes to us, I will do what you say.”

She heard the evil words of the people against the governor, because they fainted for lack of water; and Judith heard all the words that Ozias spoke to them, how he swore to them that he would deliver the city to the Assyrians after five days.

Now try the Lord Almighty, and you will never know anything.

But Mordecai used to walk every day by the women’s court, to see what would become of Esther.

For how shall I be able to look upon the affliction of my people, and how shall I be able to survive the destruction of my kindred?

Because by mere chance were we born, And hereafter we will be as though we had never been: Because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, And while our heart beats reason is a spark,

For to think upon her is perfectness of understanding, And he that watches for her sake will quickly be free from care.

For the thoughts of mortals are timorous, And our plans are prone to fail.

For a corruptible body weighs down the soul, And the earthy frame lies heavy on a mind that is full of cares.

For those who promised to drive away terrors and troublings from a sick soul, These were themselves sick with a ludicrous fearfulness:

For even if no troublous thing affrighted them, Yet, scared with the creepings of vermin and hissings of serpents,

For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing, And, being pressed hard by conscience, always forecasts the worst lot:

And from within the heart the expectation of them being less Maketh of greater account the ignorance of the cause that brings the torment.

Set your heart aright, and constantly endure, And make not haste in time of calamity.

Woe to the faint heart! for it believes not; Therefore will it not be defended.

Woe to you that have lost your patience! And what will you⌃ do when the Lord shall visit you?

Be not over busy in your superfluous works: For more things are showed to you than men can understand.

Set not your heart upon your goods; And say not, They are sufficient for me.

Be not surety above your power: And if you be surety, take thought as one that will have to pay.

My son, be not busy about many matters: For if you meddle much, you will not be unpunished; And if you pursue, you will not overtake; And you will not escape by fleeing.

There is one that toileth, and labores, and makes haste, And is so much the more behind.

When he says, I have found rest, And now will I eat of my goods; Yet he knows not what time will pass, And he will leave them to others, and die.

Say not, What use is there of me? And what from henceforth will my good things be?

Say not, I have sufficient, And from henceforth what harm will happen to me?

In the day of good things there is a forgetfulness of evil things; And in the day of evil things a man will not remember things that are good.

Keep them to yourself, and take earnest heed, For you walk in peril of your falling.

A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity; And the finding out of parables is a weariness of thinking.

Pales set on a high place will not stand against the wind: So a fearful heart in the imagination of a fool will not stand against any fear.

Suretiship has undone many that were prospering, And shaken them as a wave of the sea: Mighty men has it driven from their homes; And they wandered among strange nations.

He that makes too much of his son shall bind up his wounds; And his heart will be troubled at every cry.

Give not over your soul to sorrow; And afflict not yourself in your own counsel.

Love your own soul, and comfort your heart: And remove sorrow far from you; For sorrow has destroyed many, And there is no profit therein.

Envy and wrath shorten a man’s days; And care brings old age before the time.

Wakefulness that comes of riches consumes the flesh, And the anxiety thereof puts away sleep.

Wakeful anxiety will crave slumber; And in a sore disease sleep will be broken.

A rich man toileth in gathering money together; And when he rests, he is filled with his good things.

As one that catches at a shadow, and follows after the wind, So is he that sets his mind on dreams.

For of sorrow comes death, And sorrow of heart will bow down the strength.

Give not your heart to sorrow: Put it away, remembering the last end:

The expectation of things to come, and the day of death, Trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;

There is wrath, and jealousy, and trouble, and disquiet, And fear of death, and anger, and strife; And in the time of rest upon his bed His night sleep does change his knowledge.

A little or nothing is his resting, And afterward in his sleep, as in a day of keeping watch, He is troubled in the vision of his heart, As one that has escaped from the front of battle.

A daughter is a secret cause of wakefulness to a father; And the care for her puts away sleep; In her youth, lest she pass the flower of her age; And when she is married, lest she should be hated:

For when there comes any war or plague upon them, the priests consult with themselves, where they may be hidden with them.

But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day.

And he saw that the money failed from his treasures, and that the tributes of the country were small, because of the dissension and plague which he had brought upon the land, to the end that he might take away the laws which had been from the first days;

and he feared that he should not have enough as at other times for the charges and the gifts which he gave aforetime with a liberal hand, and he abounded above the kings that were before him.

And he was exceedingly perplexed in his mind, and he determined to go into Persia, and to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.

but when he heard thereof, he was confounded and discouraged, because neither had such things as he would been done to Israel, nor had such things as the king commanded him come to pass.

And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die.

And he called for all his Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care.

And I said in my heart, To what tribulation am I come, and how great a flood is it, wherein I now am! for I was gracious and beloved in my power.

And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was sore troubled in heart, for that he had no time to gather them together, and he waxed faint.

So having appointed a day, he entered in to direct the inquiry concerning these matters; and there was no small distress throughout the whole city.

And they also that were shut up in the city were in no light distress, being troubled because of the encounter in the open ground.

for I was ashamed to ask of the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.

then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed forth, uncertain of the event.

Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in visage, and depressed in countenance.

saying, Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness.

Be not careful overmuch: for when the day of tribulation and anguish comes, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but you shall be merry and have abundance.

In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (the same is Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart: