[ 40:2] Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and you shall answer Me.

And thus shall you eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste. It is a Passover to the Lord.

And the hand of the Lord [was] upon Elijah, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to Jezreel.

Gird up your loins, and stand up, and speak all [the words] that I shall command you. Be not afraid of their face, neither be alarmed before them; for I am with you, to deliver you, says the Lord.

Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, stay sober, put your hope fully in the grace brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Though the Mighty One should lay [His] hand upon me, forasmuch as He has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before Him.

Then shall You call, and I will listen to You: or You shall speak, and I will give You an answer.

Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, and come to an end [of the matter]!

And I would know the remedies which He would speak to me, and I would perceive what He would tell me.

for truth and reproof are from Him, and He would bring forth my judgment to an end.

(Oh that I had a hearer!) And if I had not feared the hand of the Lord; and as to the written charge which I had against anyone,

And if I did not read it and return it, having taken nothing from the debtor: