It is time to work for the Lord
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It is time to work for the Lord
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"It is time to work for the Lord" is the first half of a verse in Psalms that has served as a dramatic slogan at several junctures in rabbinic Judaism. Psalm 119:126 states: "It is time for the Lord to act, for your law has been broken". This verse would seem to suggest that, when the wicked are breaking the commandments, God will deliver the steadfast. However, in the readings of rabbinic midrash, an alternate meaning of the verse is given, due to an ambiguity in the Biblical Hebrew: instead of
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