But of the tree
of the knowledge
of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day
that thou
eatest thereof thou
shalt surely die.
In the sweat
of thy
face
shalt thou
eat bread,
till thou
return unto the ground;
for out of it wast
thou taken:
for dust
thou art,
and unto dust
shalt thou return.
And Enoch
walked
with God:
and he was not;
for God
took him.
And the LORD said,
I will destroy man whom
I have created
from the face
of the earth;
both man,
and beast,
and the creeping thing,
and the fowls
of the air;
for it
repenteth me that
I have made them.
The earth
also was
corrupt
before God,
and the earth
was filled
with violence.
And God
looked
upon the earth,
and,
behold,
it was corrupt;
for all flesh
had corrupted
his way
upon the earth.
And God
said
unto Noah,
The end
of all flesh
is come
before me;
for the earth
is filled
with violence
through them;
and,
behold,
I will destroy them
with the earth.
And
thou shalt go
to thy
fathers in peace;
thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.
And the men
said
unto Lot,
Hast
thou here any
besides?
son in law,
and thy sons,
and thy daughters,
and
whatsoever thou
hast in the city,
bring them
out of this place:
For we
will destroy
this place,
because the cry
of them is waxen great
before the face
of the LORD;
and the LORD
hath sent us
to destroy it.
Then the LORD
rained
upon Sodom
and upon Gomorrah brimstone
and fire
from the LORD
out of heaven;
And
he overthrew those cities,
and all
the plain,
and all
the inhabitants
of the cities,
and
that which
grew upon the ground.
Then Abraham
gave up
the ghost,
and died
in a good old age,
an old man,
and full of years;
and was gathered
to his people.
And he said,
Behold now,
I am old,
I know not
the day
of my death:
And Isaac
gave up
the ghost,
and died,
and was gathered
unto his people,
being old
and full of days:
and his sons Esau
and Jacob
buried him.
And
when Jacob
had made
an end
of commanding
his sons,
he gathered
up his feet
into the bed,
and yielded
up the ghost,
and was gathered
unto his people.
And
if thou
deal thus
with me,
kill me,
I pray thee,
out of hand,
if I
have found
favour in thy sight;
and let me
not see
my wretchedness.
But
if the LORD
make a new thing,
and the earth
open her mouth,
and
swallow them up,
with all
that appertain unto them,
and
they go down quick
into the pit;
then ye
shall understand
that these men
have provoked
the LORD.
Who can count the dust
of Jacob,
and the number
of the fourth part
of Israel?
Let me
die the death
of the righteous,
and let
my last end
be like his!
And the LORD
said
unto Moses, Behold,
thou shalt sleep
with thy fathers;
and this people
will rise up,
and go
a whoring
after the gods
of the strangers
of the land,
whither
they go
to be among them,
and will forsake me,
and break
my covenant which
I have made with them.
O that
they were wise,
that they
understood this,
that they
would consider
their latter end!
And,
behold,
this day
I am going
the way
of all the earth:
and
ye know in all
your hearts
and
in all your souls,
that not
one thing
hath failed
of all the good things
which the LORD your God
spake concerning you;
all are come
to pass unto you,
and not
one thing
hath failed
thereof.
The LORD killeth,
and maketh alive:
he bringeth down
to the grave,
and
bringeth up.
And
he said unto him,
God forbid;
thou shalt not die:
behold,
my father
will do nothing
either great
or small,
but that
he will shew it me:
and why
should
my father
hide this thing
from me?
it is not so.
And David
sware moreover,
and said,
Thy father
certainly knoweth that
I have found
grace
in thine eyes;
and he saith,
Let
not Jonathan
know this,
lest
he be grieved:
but truly as the LORD liveth,
and as thy soul liveth,
there is
but a step
between me and death.
And it
came
to pass
about ten days after,
that the LORD
smote Nabal,
that he died.
Saul
and Jonathan
were lovely
and pleasant
in their lives,
and
in their death
they were not divided:
they were swifter
than eagles,
they were stronger
than lions.
But now
he is dead,
wherefore should
I fast?
can
I bring him
back again?
I shall go
to him,
but
he shall not return to me.
For we must needs die,
and are
as water
spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered
up again;
neither doth
God respect
any person:
yet doth
he devise means,
that his banished
be not expelled from him.
But
he himself
went
a day's journey
into the wilderness,
and came
and sat down
under a juniper tree:
and he
requested
for himself
that he
might die;
and said,
It is enough;
now,
O LORD,
take away
my life;
for I
am not
better
than my fathers.
And it
came
to pass,
when the LORD
would take up Elijah
into heaven
by a whirlwind,
that Elijah
went with Elisha
from Gilgal.
In those days
was Hezekiah sick
unto death.
And the prophet Isaiah
the son
of Amoz
came to him,
and
said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine
house
in order;
for thou
shalt die,
and not live.
Because
thine heart
was tender,
and
thou hast humbled thyself
before the LORD,
when
thou heardest
what
I spake against this place,
and
against the inhabitants
thereof,
that they
should become
a desolation
and a curse,
and hast rent
thy clothes,
and wept
before me;
I also have heard thee,
saith the LORD.
Behold therefore,
I will gather thee
unto thy fathers,
and
thou shalt be gathered
into thy grave
in peace;
and thine
eyes
shall not see all the evil
which I
will bring
upon this place.
And they
brought
the king word again.
So Saul
died
for his transgression
which he
committed
against the LORD,
even against the word
of the LORD,
which he
kept not,
and
also for asking
counsel
of one
that had
a familiar spirit,
to enquire of it;
And enquired not
of the LORD:
therefore he
slew him,
and turned
the kingdom
unto David
the son
of Jesse.
And he
walked
in the way
of the kings
of Israel,
like
as did
the house
of Ahab:
for he had
the daughter
of Ahab to wife:
and he
wrought that which
was evil
in the eyes
of the LORD.
Thirty
and two years old
was he
when
he began
to reign,
and he
reigned
in Jerusalem eight years,
and departed
without being desired.
Howbeit
they buried him
in the city
of David,
but not in the sepulchres
of the kings.
And said,
Naked
came
I out of my mother's womb,
and naked
shall
I return thither:
the LORD gave,
and the LORD
hath taken away;
blessed
be the name
of the LORD.
After this
opened Job
his mouth,
and cursed
his day.
For now should
I have lain still
and been quiet,
I should have slept:
then had
I been at rest,
There
the wicked
cease
from troubling;
and
there the weary
be at rest.
There
the prisoners
rest together;
they hear not
the voice
of the oppressor.
The small
and great
are there;
and the servant
is free
from his master.
Doth not
their excellency which
is in them go away?
they die,
even without wisdom.
Oh that
I might have
my request;
and that God
would grant me
the thing that
I long for!
Even
that it
would please
God
to destroy me;
that he
would let loose
his hand,
and
cut me off!
Then should
I yet have comfort;
yea,
I would harden myself
in sorrow:
let him
not spare;
for I
have not concealed the words
of the Holy One.
What is my strength,
that I
should hope?
and what
is
mine end,
that I
should prolong
my life?
Is there not
an appointed
time
to man
upon earth?
are not his days also like
the days
of an hireling?
As a servant
earnestly desireth
the shadow,
and as an hireling looketh
for the reward
of his work:
So am
I made
to possess months
of vanity,
and wearisome nights
are appointed to me.
The eye
of him that
hath seen me
shall see me
no more:
thine eyes
are upon me,
and I
am not.
As the cloud
is consumed
and vanisheth away:
so he
that goeth down
to the grave
shall come
up no more.
He shall return
no more
to his house,
neither shall
his place
know him any more.
So that
my soul
chooseth strangling,
and death
rather than my life.
I loathe it;
I would not live alway:
let me alone;
for my days are vanity.
And why
dost thou
not pardon
my transgression,
and take away
my iniquity?
for now shall
I sleep
in the dust;
and
thou shalt seek me
in the morning,
but
I shall not be.
My soul
is weary
of my life;
I will leave my complaint
upon myself;
I will speak in the bitterness
of my soul.
Before I
go whence I
shall not return,
even to the land
of darkness
and the shadow
of death;
A land
of darkness,
as darkness
itself;
and of the shadow
of death,
without any order,
and
where the light
is as darkness.
He cometh forth like
a flower,
and is cut down:
he fleeth also
as a shadow,
and continueth not.
Seeing
his days
are determined,
the number
of his months
are with thee,
thou hast appointed
his bounds that
he cannot pass;
Turn from him,
that he
may rest,
till he
shall accomplish,
as an hireling,
his day.
For there is
hope of a tree,
if it
be cut down,
that it
will sprout again,
and
that the tender branch
thereof will not cease.
Though the root
thereof wax old
in the earth,
and the stock
thereof die
in the ground;
Yet through the scent
of water
it will bud,
and bring forth boughs like
a plant.
But man dieth,
and wasteth away:
yea,
man giveth up the ghost,
and
where is he?
As the waters
fail
from the sea,
and the flood
decayeth
and drieth up:
So man
lieth down,
and riseth not:
till the heavens
be no more,
they shall not awake,
nor be raised
out of their sleep.
O that thou
wouldest hide me
in the grave,
that thou
wouldest keep me
secret,
until thy wrath
be past,
that thou
wouldest appoint me
a set time,
and remember me!
If a man die,
shall
he live again?
all the days
of my appointed
time
will
I wait,
till my change come.
The waters
wear the stones:
thou washest away
the things
which grow
out of the dust
of the earth;
and
thou destroyest
the hope
of man.
Thou
prevailest for ever against him,
and he passeth:
thou changest his countenance,
and sendest him away.
His sons
come to honour,
and
he knoweth it not;
and
they are brought low,
but
he perceiveth it
not of them.
When a few years
are come,
then I
shall go
the way
whence I
shall not return.
If I wait,
the grave
is
mine house:
I have made
my bed
in the darkness.
I have said
to corruption,
Thou art my father:
to the worm,
Thou art my mother,
and my sister.
They shall go down to the bars
of the pit,
when our rest
together is in the dust.
His confidence
shall be rooted
out of his tabernacle,
and it
shall bring him to the king
of terrors.
He shall be driven
from light
into darkness,
and chased
out of the world.
Knowest
thou
not this of old,
since man
was placed
upon earth,
That the triumphing
of the wicked
is short,
and the joy
of the hypocrite
but for a moment?
He shall fly
away as a dream,
and shall not be found:
yea,
he shall be
chased
away
as a vision
of the night.
His bones
are full of
the sin
of his youth,
which shall lie down
with him
in the dust.
They spend
their days
in wealth,
and
in a moment go down
to the grave.
How oft
is the candle
of the wicked put out!
and
how oft
cometh
their destruction
upon them!
God distributeth
sorrows in his anger.
They are as stubble
before the wind,
and
as chaff
that the storm
carrieth away.
One dieth
in his full strength,
being wholly
at ease and quiet.
His breasts
are full of milk,
and his bones
are moistened
with marrow.
And another dieth
in the bitterness
of his soul,
and never eateth
with pleasure.
They shall lie down alike
in the dust,
and the worms
shall cover them.
Yet shall
he be brought
to the grave,
and shall remain
in the tomb.
The clods
of the valley
shall be sweet
unto him,
and every man
shall draw
after him,
as there are innumerable
before him.
The womb
shall forget him;
the worm
shall feed sweetly
on him;
he shall be
no more remembered;
and wickedness
shall be broken
as a tree.
They are exalted
for a little while,
but are gone
and brought low;
they are taken
out of the way
as all other,
and cut off
as the tops
of the ears
of corn.
For what
is the hope
of the hypocrite,
though he
hath gained,
when God
taketh away
his soul?
The rich man
shall lie down,
but
he shall not be gathered:
he openeth his eyes,
and he
is not.
Terrors
take
hold on him
as waters,
a tempest
stealeth him away
in the night.
The east wind
carrieth him away,
and he departeth:
and as a storm
hurleth him
out of his place.
For God
shall cast upon him,
and not spare:
he would fain
flee
out of his hand.
Men shall clap
their hands
at him,
and shall hiss him
out of his place.
For I
know that thou
wilt bring me
to death,
and
to the house appointed
for all living.
If he set
his heart
upon man,
if he
gather
unto himself his spirit
and his breath;
All flesh
shall perish together,
and man
shall turn
again unto dust.
In a moment
shall
they die,
and the people
shall be troubled
at midnight,
and pass away:
and the mighty
shall be taken away
without hand.
But
if they
obey not,
they shall perish
by the sword,
and
they shall die
without knowledge.
They die
in youth,
and their life
is among the unclean.
Because there is wrath,
beware lest
he take thee
away with his stroke:
then a great ransom
cannot deliver thee.
Desire
not the night,
when people
are cut off
in their place.
Have the gates
of death
been opened
unto thee?
or hast
thou seen
the doors
of the shadow
of death?
For in death
there is no remembrance
of thee:
in the grave
who shall give
thee thanks?
Yea,
though I
walk
through the valley
of the shadow
of death,
I will fear no evil:
for thou art
with me;
thy rod
and thy staff
they comfort me.
What profit
is there
in my blood,
when I
go down
to the pit?
Shall the dust praise thee?
shall
it declare
thy truth?
Into thine hand
I commit
my spirit:
thou hast redeemed me,
O LORD God
of truth.
Fret not thyself
because
of evildoers,
neither be
thou envious
against the workers
of iniquity.
For yet
a little while,
and the wicked
shall not be:
yea,
thou shalt diligently consider
his place,
and it
shall not be.
I have seen
the wicked
in great power,
and spreading himself like
a green bay tree.
Yet
he passed away,
and,
lo,
he was not:
yea,
I sought him,
but
he could not be found.
Mark the perfect man,
and behold
the upright:
for the end
of that man
is peace.
LORD,
make me to know
mine end,
and the measure
of my days,
what it is:
that I
may know how frail
I am.
O spare me,
that I
may recover
strength,
before I
go hence,
and be
no more.
None of them
can by any means
redeem his brother,
nor give
to God a ransom
for him:
That he
should still live
for ever,
and not see
corruption.
For he
seeth
that wise men die,
likewise
the fool
and the brutish person perish,
and leave
their wealth
to others.
Like sheep
they are laid
in the grave;
death
shall feed on them;
and the upright
shall have dominion
over them
in the morning;
and their beauty
shall consume
in the grave
from their dwelling.
But God
will redeem
my soul
from the power
of the grave:
for he
shall receive me.
Selah.
For when he dieth
he shall carry nothing away:
his glory
shall not descend
after him.
He shall go to the generation
of his fathers;
they shall never see light.
Man that is
in honour,
and understandeth not,
is like
the beasts that perish.
Let death
seize upon them,
and let them
go down quick
into hell:
for wickedness
is in their dwellings,
and
among them.
But thou,
O God,
shalt bring
them down
into the pit
of destruction:
bloody
and deceitful men
shall not live
out half their days;
but
I will trust
in thee.
Before your pots
can feel
the thorns,
he shall take them away
as with a whirlwind,
both living,
and
in his wrath.
He that is
our God
is the God
of salvation;
and
unto GOD
the Lord
belong
the issues
from death.
For I
was envious
at the foolish,
when
I saw
the prosperity
of the wicked.
For there are
no bands
in their death:
but their strength
is firm.
Until I
went into the sanctuary
of God;
then understood
I their end.
Surely thou
didst set them
in slippery places:
thou castedst
them down
into destruction.
How are
they brought
into desolation,
as in a moment!
they are utterly consumed
with terrors.
As a dream
when one awaketh;
so,
O Lord,
when
thou awakest,
thou shalt despise
their image.
Thou shalt guide me
with thy counsel,
and afterward receive me
to glory.
He made a way
to his anger;
he spared not their soul
from death,
but gave
their life over
to the pestilence;
But
ye shall die like men,
and fall like one
of the princes.
Mine
eye
mourneth
by reason
of affliction:
LORD,
I have called daily
upon thee,
I have stretched out
my hands
unto thee.
Wilt thou
shew wonders
to the dead?
shall
the dead
arise and praise thee?
Selah.
Shall
thy lovingkindness
be declared
in the grave?
or thy faithfulness
in destruction?
Shall
thy wonders be known
in the dark?
and thy righteousness
in the land
of forgetfulness?
But unto thee
have
I cried,
O LORD;
and
in the morning
shall
my prayer prevent thee.
LORD,
why castest
thou
off my soul?
why hidest
thou
thy
face from me?
What man
is
he that liveth,
and shall not see
death?
shall
he deliver
his soul
from the hand
of the grave?
Selah.
Thou turnest man
to destruction;
and sayest,
Return,
ye children
of men.
So teach us
to number our days,
that we
may apply
our hearts
unto wisdom.
When the wicked spring
as the grass,
and
when all
the workers
of iniquity
do flourish;
it is
that they
shall be destroyed
for ever:
For he
knoweth our frame;
he remembereth that
we are dust.
As for man,
his days
are as grass:
as a flower
of the field,
so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth
over it,
and it
is gone;
and the place
thereof shall know
it no more.
Thou hidest
thy face,
they are troubled:
thou takest away
their breath,
they die,
and return
to their dust.
The dead
praise not
the LORD,
neither any that go down
into silence.
Precious
in the sight
of the LORD
is the death
of his saints.
For the enemy
hath persecuted
my soul;
he hath smitten
my life down
to the ground;
he hath made me
to dwell
in darkness,
as those
that have been long dead.
Man is like
to vanity:
his days
are as a shadow
that passeth away.
His breath
goeth forth,
he returneth to his earth;
in that very day
his thoughts perish.
But the wicked
shall be cut off
from the earth,
and the transgressors
shall be rooted out of it.
As the whirlwind passeth,
so is the wicked no more:
but the righteous
is an everlasting foundation.
The fear
of the LORD
prolongeth days:
but the years
of the wicked
shall be shortened.
When a
wicked man dieth,
his expectation
shall perish:
and the hope
of unjust men perisheth.
When it
goeth well
with the righteous,
the city rejoiceth:
and
when the wicked perish,
there is shouting.
The light
of the righteous rejoiceth:
but
the lamp
of the wicked
shall be put out.
The wicked
is driven away
in his wickedness:
but the righteous
hath
hope
in his death.
The man that
wandereth
out of the way
of understanding
shall remain
in the congregation
of the dead.
For there shall be
no reward
to the evil man;
the candle
of the wicked
shall be put out.
He,
that being often reproved
hardeneth his neck,
shall suddenly be destroyed,
and
that without remedy.
The wise man's eyes
are in his head;
but the fool
walketh in darkness:
and
I myself
perceived also
that one event
happeneth to them all.
Then said
I in my heart,
As it
happeneth to the fool,
so it
happeneth even to me;
and
why was I
then more wise?
Then I
said
in my heart,
that this
also is vanity.
For there is no remembrance
of the wise
more than of the fool
for ever;
seeing
that which
now is
in the days
to come
shall all be forgotten.
And
how dieth
the wise man?
as the fool.
Therefore I
hated life;
because
the work
that is wrought
under the sun
is grievous
unto me:
for all is vanity
and vexation
of spirit.
Yea,
I hated all
my labour
which I
had taken
under the sun:
because
I should leave
it unto the man
that shall be
after me.
A time
to be born,
and a time
to die;
a time to plant,
and a time
to pluck
up that which
is planted;
For that
which befalleth the sons
of men
befalleth beasts;
even
one thing
befalleth them:
as the one dieth,
so dieth
the other;
yea,
they have all
one breath;
so that a man
hath no preeminence above a beast:
for all is vanity.
All go
unto one place;
all are
of the dust,
and all turn
to dust again.
Who knoweth
the spirit of man
that goeth upward,
and the spirit
of the beast
that goeth downward
to the earth?
Wherefore
I praised
the dead which
are already
dead more than
the living which
are yet alive.
As he came forth
of his mother's womb,
naked
shall
he return
to go
as he came,
and shall take nothing
of his labour,
which he
may carry away
in his hand.
Yea,
though he
live
a thousand years twice told,
yet hath
he seen no good:
do not all go
to one place?
That which
hath been
is named already,
and it
is known
that it
is man:
neither may
he contend
with him that is mightier
than he.
A good name
is better
than precious ointment;
and the day
of death
than the day
of one's birth.
It is
better to go
to the house
of mourning,
than
to go
to the house
of feasting:
for that is the end
of all men;
and the living
will lay it
to his heart.
All things
have
I seen
in the days
of my vanity:
there is a
just man
that perisheth
in his righteousness,
and there is
a wicked man
that prolongeth
his life
in his wickedness.
There is no man
that hath
power
over the spirit
to retain the spirit;
neither hath
he power
in the day
of death:
and there is
no discharge
in that war;
neither shall
wickedness deliver those
that are given to it.
And so
I saw
the wicked buried,
who had come
and gone
from the place
of the holy,
and
they were forgotten
in the city
where they
had so done:
this is also
vanity.
This is
an evil among all
things
that are done
under the sun,
that there is one event
unto all:
yea,
also the heart
of the sons
of men
is
full of evil,
and madness
is in their heart
while they live,
and after that
they go
to the dead.
For to him
that is joined
to all
the living
there is hope:
for a living dog
is better
than a dead lion.
For the living
know
that they
shall die:
but the dead
know not any thing,
neither have
they any more a reward;
for the memory
of them is forgotten.
Also their love,
and their hatred,
and their envy,
is now perished;
neither have
they any more
a portion for
ever in any thing
that is done
under the sun.
Whatsoever
thy hand
findeth to do,
do it
with thy might;
for there is
no work,
nor device,
nor knowledge,
nor wisdom,
in the grave,
whither thou goest.
Truly
the light
is sweet,
and a pleasant thing it
is for the eyes
to behold
the sun:
But
if a man
live many years,
and rejoice
in them all;
yet let him
remember the days
of darkness;
for they
shall be many.
All
that cometh is vanity.
Also when
they shall be afraid
of that which
is high,
and fears
shall be
in the way,
and the almond tree
shall flourish,
and the grasshopper
shall be
a burden,
and desire
shall fail:
because man
goeth to his long home,
and the mourners
go about the streets:
Thy pomp
is brought down
to the grave,
and the noise
of thy viols:
the worm
is spread
under thee,
and the worms
cover thee.
And behold
at eveningtide trouble;
and
before the morning
he is not.
This is
the portion
of them that
spoil us,
and the lot
of them that
rob us.
He will swallow up death
in victory;
and the Lord GOD
will wipe away
tears from
off all faces;
and
the rebuke
of his people
shall
he take away from
off all
the earth:
for the LORD
hath spoken it.
They are dead,
they shall not live;
they are deceased,
they shall not rise:
therefore hast thou
visited and destroyed them,
and made all
their memory
to perish.
In those days
was Hezekiah sick
unto death.
And Isaiah
the prophet
the son
of Amoz
came unto him,
and
said unto him,
Thus saith the LORD,
Set thine
house
in order:
for thou
shalt die,
and not live.
I said
in the cutting off
of my days,
I shall go to the gates
of the grave:
I am deprived of the residue
of my years.
I said,
I shall not see
the LORD,
even the LORD,
in the land
of the living:
I shall behold man no more
with the inhabitants
of the world.
Mine
age
is departed,
and is removed
from me
as a shepherd's tent:
I have cut off like
a weaver my life:
he will cut
me off
with pining sickness:
from day
even to night
wilt
thou make
an end of me.
I reckoned
till morning,
that,
as a lion,
so will
he break all
my bones:
from day
even to night
wilt
thou make
an end of me.
For the grave
cannot praise thee,
death can not celebrate thee:
they
that go down
into the pit
cannot hope
for thy truth.
The living,
the living,
he shall praise thee,
as I
do this day:
the father
to the children
shall make
known
thy truth.
The grass withereth,
the flower fadeth:
because
the spirit
of the LORD
bloweth upon it:
surely the people
is grass.
I,
even I,
am he
that comforteth you:
who art thou,
that thou
shouldest be afraid
of a man
that shall die,
and
of the son
of man which
shall be made
as grass;
The righteous perisheth,
and no man
layeth it
to heart:
and merciful men
are taken away,
none considering
that the righteous
is taken away
from the evil
to come.
He shall enter
into peace:
they shall rest
in their beds,
each one
walking
in his uprightness.
And death
shall be chosen rather than
life
by all the residue
of them that
remain of this evil family,
which remain
in all the places
whither
I have driven them,
saith the LORD
of hosts.
For death
is come up
into our windows,
and is entered
into our palaces,
to cut off
the children
from without,
and the young men
from the streets.
For thus
saith
the LORD
concerning the sons
and
concerning
the daughters
that are born
in this place,
and concerning their mothers
that bare them,
and concerning their fathers
that begat them
in this land;
They shall die
of grievous deaths;
they shall not be lamented;
neither shall
they be buried;
but
they shall be as dung
upon the face
of the earth:
and
they shall be consumed
by the sword,
and by famine;
and their carcases
shall be meat
for the fowls
of heaven,
and
for the beasts
of the earth.
In their heat
I will make
their feasts,
and
I will make them
drunken,
that they
may rejoice,
and sleep
a perpetual sleep,
and not wake,
saith the LORD.
I called for
my lovers,
but
they deceived me:
my priests
and mine elders
gave up
the ghost
in the city,
while they
sought
their meat
to relieve their souls.
He hath set me
in dark places,
as they
that be dead
of old.
They shall bring thee down
to the pit,
and
thou shalt die
the deaths
of them that
are slain in the midst
of the seas.
And many
of them that sleep
in the dust
of the earth
shall awake,
some
to everlasting life,
and some
to shame
and everlasting contempt.
But go
thou thy way till
the end be:
for thou
shalt rest,
and stand
in thy lot
at the end
of the days.
I will ransom them
from the power
of the grave;
I will redeem them
from death:
O death,
I will be
thy plagues;
O grave,
I will be
thy destruction:
repentance
shall be
hid from mine eyes.
All the sinners
of my people
shall die
by the sword,
which say,
The evil
shall not overtake nor
prevent us.
And it
came
to pass,
when the sun
did arise,
that God
prepared a vehement east wind;
and the sun beat
upon the head
of Jonah,
that he fainted,
and wished
in himself
to die,
and said,
It is
better
for me to
die than
to live.
Your fathers,
where are they?
and the prophets,
do they
live
for ever?
And fear not them which
kill the body,
but are not able
to kill the soul:
but
rather fear him which
is able
to destroy both soul
and body
in hell.
Lord,
now lettest
thou thy servant
depart in peace,
according to
thy word:
But God
said unto him,
Thou fool,
this night
thy soul
shall be required
of thee:
then
whose shall those things be,
which thou
hast provided?
Let your loins
be girded about,
and your lights burning;
And
ye yourselves like
unto men
that wait
for their lord,
when
he will return
from the wedding;
that when
he cometh
and knocketh,
they may open
unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants,
whom the lord
when
he cometh
shall find watching:
verily
I say unto you,
that he
shall gird himself,
and make them to
sit down to meat,
and will come
forth and serve them.
And it
came
to pass,
that the beggar died,
and was carried
by the angels
into Abraham's bosom:
the rich man
also died,
and was buried;
And in hell
he lift
up his eyes,
being
in torments,
and seeth Abraham
afar off,
and Lazarus
in his bosom.
And he
cried
and said,
Father Abraham,
have mercy on me,
and send Lazarus,
that he
may dip
the tip
of his finger
in water,
and cool
my tongue;
for I
am tormented
in this flame.
But Abraham said,
Son,
remember that
thou in thy lifetime receivedst
thy good things,
and likewise
Lazarus evil things:
but now
he is comforted,
and
thou art tormented.
And
beside all this,
between us
and you
there is
a great gulf fixed:
so that
they which
would pass from
hence to you cannot;
neither can
they pass to us,
that would come
from thence.
Then he said,
I pray thee
therefore,
father,
that thou
wouldest send him
to my father's house:
For I
have five brethren;
that he
may testify unto them,
lest
they also come
into this place
of torment.
And Jesus
answering
said unto them,
The children
of this world marry,
and are given
in marriage:
But they which
shall be accounted worthy
to obtain that world,
and the resurrection
from the dead,
neither marry,
nor are given
in marriage:
Neither can
they die any more:
for they
are equal
unto the angels;
and are the children
of God,
being the children
of the resurrection.
Now
that the dead
are raised,
even
Moses
shewed
at the bush,
when
he calleth
the Lord
the God
of Abraham,
and the God
of Isaac,
and the God
of Jacob.
For he is not
a God
of the dead,
but of the living:
for all live unto him.
And one
of the malefactors which
were hanged
railed on him,
saying,
If thou
be Christ,
save thyself
and us.
But the other answering
rebuked him,
saying,
Dost not
thou fear God,
seeing
thou art
in the same condemnation?
And
we indeed justly;
for we
receive the due reward
of our deeds:
but this man
hath done
nothing amiss.
And he
said
unto Jesus, Lord,
remember me
when thou
comest into thy kingdom.
And Jesus
said unto him,
Verily I
say unto thee,
To day
shalt
thou be with me
in paradise.
I must work
the works
of him that
sent me,
while it
is day:
the night cometh,
when no man
can work.
These things
said he:
and
after that
he saith unto them,
Our friend Lazarus sleepeth;
but I go,
that I
may awake him out of sleep.
But Peter said,
Ananias,
why hath
Satan
filled
thine heart
to lie
to the Holy Ghost,
and to keep
back part
of the price
of the land?
Whiles it remained,
was it not
thine own?
and after it
was sold,
was it
not in thine own power?
why hast
thou conceived
this thing
in thine heart?
thou hast not lied
unto men,
but unto God.
And Ananias
hearing
these words fell down,
and gave up
the ghost:
and great fear
came
on all
them that
heard these things.
And the young men arose,
wound him up,
and
carried him out,
and buried him.
And it
was about the space
of three hours after,
when his wife,
not knowing
what was done,
came in.
And Peter
answered
unto her,
Tell me
whether ye
sold
the land
for so much?
And she said,
Yea,
for so much.
Then Peter
said
unto her,
How is it that
ye have agreed together
to tempt the Spirit
of the Lord?
behold,
the feet of them
which have buried thy
husband
are at the door,
and shall carry thee out.
Then fell
she down
straightway at his feet,
and yielded
up the ghost:
and the young men
came in,
and found
her dead,
and,
carrying
her forth,
buried
her by her husband.
And
they stoned
Stephen,
calling upon God,
and saying,
Lord Jesus,
receive my spirit.
And
he kneeled down,
and cried
with a loud voice,
Lord,
lay not
this sin
to their charge.
And
when
he had said this,
he fell asleep.
For David,
after he had served
his own generation
by the will
of God,
fell on sleep,
and was laid
unto his fathers,
and saw
corruption:
Wherefore,
as by one man
sin entered
into the world,
and death
by sin;
and so death
passed
upon all men,
for that
all have sinned:
Nevertheless
death
reigned
from Adam
to Moses,
even over them
that had not sinned
after the similitude
of Adam's transgression,
who is
the figure
of him that
was to come.
For none of us
liveth to himself,
and no man dieth
to himself.
For whether
we live,
we live
unto the Lord;
and
whether we die,
we die
unto the Lord:
whether we
live therefore,
or die,
we are the Lord's.
Therefore let
no man
glory in men.
For all things
are your's;
Whether Paul,
or Apollos,
or Cephas,
or the world,
or life,
or death,
or things present,
or things
to come;
all are your's;
And
ye are Christ's;
and Christ
is God's.
After that,
he was seen
of above
five hundred brethren
at once;
of whom
the greater part
remain
unto this present,
but some
are fallen asleep.
Then
they also which
are fallen asleep
in Christ
are perished.
For since by man
came death,
by man
came also
the resurrection
of the dead.
For as in Adam
all die,
even so in Christ
shall all be made alive.
The last enemy
that shall be destroyed
is death.
Behold,
I shew
you a mystery;
We shall not all sleep,
but
we shall all be changed,
In a moment,
in the twinkling
of an eye,
at the last trump:
for the trumpet
shall sound,
and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible,
and
we shall be changed.
For this corruptible
must put on
incorruption,
and this mortal
must put on
immortality.
So when this corruptible
shall have put on
incorruption,
and this mortal
shall have put on
immortality,
then shall be brought
to pass
the saying
that is written,
Death is swallowed up
in victory.
O death,
where is
thy sting?
O grave,
where is thy victory?
The sting
of death
is sin;
and the strength
of sin
is the law.
But thanks
be to God,
which giveth us
the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
But we
had
the sentence
of death
in ourselves,
that we
should not trust
in ourselves,
but in God which
raiseth the dead:
Who delivered us
from so great
a death,
and doth deliver:
in whom
we trust that
he will yet deliver us;
For we
know that
if our earthly house
of this tabernacle
were dissolved,
we have a
building of God,
an house
not made
with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
For in this
we groan,
earnestly desiring
to be clothed upon
with our house
which is from heaven:
For we
that
are in this tabernacle
do groan,
being burdened:
not for that
we would be unclothed,
but clothed upon,
that mortality
might be swallowed up
of life.
We are confident,
I say,
and willing
rather to be absent
from the body,
and
to be
present
with the Lord.
According to
my earnest expectation
and my hope,
that in nothing
I shall be ashamed,
but
that with all boldness,
as always,
so now also
Christ shall be magnified
in my body,
whether it
be by life,
or by death.
For to me
to live
is Christ,
and to die is gain.
But
if I
live
in the flesh,
this is the fruit
of my labour:
yet
what
I shall choose
I wot not.
For I
am in a strait
betwixt two,
having a desire
to depart,
and
to be
with Christ;
which is
far better:
Nevertheless
to abide in
the flesh
is more needful
for you.
But
I would not have you
to be ignorant,
brethren,
concerning them which
are asleep,
that ye
sorrow not,
even as others
which have
no hope.
For if
we believe
that Jesus
died
and rose again,
even so
them
also which sleep
in Jesus
will
God
bring with him.
For this
we say unto you
by the word
of the Lord,
that we which
are alive
and remain
unto the coming
of the Lord
shall not prevent them which
are asleep.
Then we which
are alive
and remain
shall be caught up together
with them
in the clouds,
to meet the Lord
in the air:
and so
shall
we ever be
with the Lord.
For when
they shall say,
Peace and safety;
then sudden destruction
cometh upon them,
as travail
upon a woman
with child;
and
they shall not escape.
For God
hath not appointed us
to wrath,
but
to obtain salvation
by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for us,
that,
whether we
wake or sleep,
we should live together with him.
For we
brought nothing
into this world,
and it
is certain
we can carry nothing out.
But is now made
manifest
by the appearing
of our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who hath abolished death,
and hath brought life
and immortality
to light
through the gospel:
For I
am now ready
to be offered,
and
the time
of my departure
is at hand.
I have fought
a good fight,
I have finished
my course,
I have kept
the faith:
Forasmuch
then as the children
are partakers
of flesh
and blood,
he also
himself likewise
took part
of the same;
that through death
he might destroy him
that
had the power
of death,
that is,
the devil;
And deliver them
who
through fear
of death
were all
their lifetime subject to bondage.
And as it
is appointed
unto men once
to die,
but after this
the judgment:
By faith Enoch
was translated
that he
should not see death;
and was not found,
because God
had translated him:
for before his translation
he had
this testimony,
that he
pleased God.
These all died
in faith,
not having received
the promises,
but
having seen them afar off,
and
were persuaded of them,
and embraced them,
and confessed that
they were strangers
and pilgrims
on the earth.
For here
have
we no
continuing city,
but
we seek one
to come.
But the rich,
in that
he is made low:
because
as the flower
of the grass
he shall pass away.
For the sun
is no sooner
risen
with a burning heat,
but it
withereth
the grass,
and the flower
thereof falleth,
and the grace
of the fashion
of it perisheth:
so also shall
the rich man
fade away
in his ways.
For that
ye ought to say,
If the Lord will,
we shall live,
and do this,
or that.
And
if ye
call on
the Father,
who
without respect
of persons
judgeth according to
every man's work,
pass the time
of your sojourning here
in fear:
For all flesh
is as grass,
and all
the glory
of man
as the flower
of grass.
The grass withereth,
and the flower
thereof falleth away:
For so
an entrance
shall be ministered
unto you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom
of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Knowing that shortly
I must put off
this my tabernacle,
even as
our Lord Jesus Christ
hath shewed me.
I am
he that liveth,
and was dead;
and,
behold,
I am alive
for evermore,
Amen;
and have
the keys
of hell
and of death.
And I looked,
and behold
a pale horse:
and his name
that sat
on him was Death,
and Hell
followed with him.
And power
was given
unto them
over the fourth part
of the earth,
to kill
with sword,
and with hunger,
and with death,
and
with the beasts
of the earth.
And in those days
shall men seek death,
and shall not find it;
and shall desire
to die,
and death
shall flee from them.
And I
heard
a voice
from heaven
saying unto me,
Write,
Blessed are the dead
which die
in the Lord
from henceforth:
Yea,
saith the Spirit,
that they
may rest
from their labours;
and their works
do follow them.
And
I saw the dead,
small
and great,
stand before God;
and the books
were opened:
and another book
was opened,
which is the book
of life:
and the dead
were judged
out of those things
which were written
in the books,
according to their works.
And the sea
gave up
the dead
which were in it;
and death and
hell
delivered
up the dead
which were in them:
and
they were judged every man
according to their works.
And death
and hell
were cast
into the lake
of fire.
This is the second death.
And God
shall wipe
away all
tears
from their eyes;
and there shall be
no more death,
neither sorrow,
nor crying,
neither shall there be any more
pain:
for the former things
are passed away.