wasteth

Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie.

Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . . Elizabeth Lowry 2011

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."

Prayer on Foot Patrol 2010

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday," the psalm tells believers.

A Chaplain and an Atheist Go to War 2010

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

By the ingestion of food upon food, before the first be digested, and by fullness upon fullness; this it is that wasteth peoples.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006