God has hidden every precious thing in such a way that it is a reward to the diligent, a prize to the earnest, but a disappointment to the slothful soul. All nature is arrayed against the lounger and the idler. The nut is hidden in its thorny case; the pearl is buried beneath the ocean waves; the gold is imprisoned in the rocky bosom of the mountains; the gem is found only after you crush the rock which encloses it; the very soil gives its harvest as a reward to the laboring farmer. So truth and God must be earnestly sought.
A.B. Simpson

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 116:1-19.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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116:1 Ek het lief, want die HERE hoor my stem, my smekinge,

116:2 want Hy het sy oor tot my geneig; daarom sal ek Hom in my dae aanroep.

116:3 Bande van die dood het my omring, en angste van die doderyk het my getref; ek het benoudheid en kommer gevind.

116:4 Maar ek het die Naam van die HERE aangeroep: Ag, HERE, red my siel.

116:5 Die HERE is genadig en regverdig, en onse God is ‘n ontfermer.

116:6 Die HERE bewaar die eenvoudiges; ek het swak geword, maar Hy het my gehelp.

116:7 My siel, keer terug tot jou rus; want die HERE het goed aan jou gedoen.

116:8 Want U het my siel gered van die dood, my oog van trane, my voet van struikeling.

116:9 Ek sal wandel voor die aangesig van die HERE in die lande van die lewendes.

116:10 Ek het geglo toe ek gespreek het: Ek is diep neergebuig.

116:11 Ék het in my angs gesê: Alle mense is leuenaars.

116:12 Wat sal ek die HERE vergeld vir al sy weldade aan my?

116:13 Ek sal die beker van verlossinge opneem en die Naam van die HERE aanroep.

116:14 My geloftes sal ek aan die HERE betaal in die teenwoordigheid van sy ganse volk.

116:15 Kosbaar is in die oë van die HERE die dood van sy gunsgenote.

116:16 Ag, HERE, sekerlik, ek is u kneg, ek is u kneg, die seun van u diensmaagd; U het my bande losgemaak.

116:17 Ek sal U ‘n offer van danksegging bring en die Naam van die HERE aanroep.

116:18 Ek sal my geloftes aan die HERE betaal in die teenwoordigheid van sy ganse volk,

116:19 in die voorhowe van die huis van die HERE, binne-in jou, o Jerusalem! Halleluja!