James 5:8

You must also have savlanut. Strengthen your levavot, because the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Moshiach Adoneinu, has drawn near.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

In Context

7Have savlanut (patience), therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, until the Bias HaMoshiach, the Coming of Moshiach Adoneinu. Hinei, the ikar (farmer) awaits the precious p'ri haAdamah (fruit of the earth), having savlanut (patience) for it until it receives the Yoreh (first autumn rain) and the Malkosh (spring rain). + 5:7 Dt 11:14; Jer 5:24; Yoel 2:23

9Do not murmur, Achim b'Moshiach, against one another, lest you be judged. Hinei, haShofet is standing before the delet! + 5:9 Ex 15:24; 16:2; 17:3; Num 14:2,29; 17:6; Ps 94:2

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Cross References

Psalms 27:14Wait for Hashem: Chazak! 1 And strengthen thine lev. 1 Wait, I say, for Hashem.

Psalms 40:1(For the one directing, Of Dovid. Mizmor) 1

Lamentations 3:25Hashem is tov unto them that wait for Him, 1 to the nefesh that seeketh Him. 1

Habakkuk 2:3For the chazon is yet for a mo'ed (an appointed time); 1 it speaks of HaKetz (the End), and does not lie; 1 though it tarry, wait for him; + 2:3 Moshiach — see Sanhedrin 97b 1 because he will surely come, and will not tarry. 1

Romans 13:11Besides this, you have da'as of the zman, that it is already the hour for you to wake up from sheynah (sleep), for now is Yeshu'at Eloheinu nearer than when we became ma'aminim (believers).

Philippians 4:5Let your chassidus (piety) and sobriety be known to kol Bnei Adam; Moshiach Adoneinu is near.

Matthew Henry on James 5:2-12

Warnings to the Rich; Motives to Patience under Affliction. ( a. d. 61.) 1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and… Read the whole commentary →

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