Ezekiel 26:20

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.”

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

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

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”

I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

The sons of Shem were: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet destroyers will come to her from me,” says Yahweh.

You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, “You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.”

“ ‘ “This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

“There is Elam and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who have gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.

They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain.

“There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.

I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth.

My salvation and my honor is with God. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

It was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.