2 Samuel 17:16

Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

and David said to the Gibeonites, “What should I do for you? And with what should I make atonement, that you may bless Yahweh’s inheritance?”

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is today.”

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.

Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.

David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee; or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn’t tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”

They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High,

But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

Yahweh, don’t grant the desires of the wicked. Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

“You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.