Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Rest was commanded even in the busiest season of all, at ploughing and harvest.
KJV18The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt. 19All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male. 20But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. 21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. 22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. 23Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. 24For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year.
Israel’s rescue from slavery in Egypt, the covenant at Sinai and the journey through the wilderness.
And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Jesus to Martha, anxious and troubled about many things: one thing is needful, and Mary chose it, time at His feet.
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again. And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
Elijah, exhausted and wishing he could die, is not scolded: God lets him sleep, gives him food and water, and says the journey ahead is too great for him.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Spoken over a world in uproar: stop striving and remember who God is. You do not have to hold everything together.
I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.
Called out of a tight place, the psalmist was answered and set in a wide, open space.