Ezekiel 28:8

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

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.”

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

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.

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

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

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

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

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.

Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces.”

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Hezekiah had exceedingly much riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels;

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

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.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, “How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”

In the time that you were broken by the seas, in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell within you.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

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.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

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.

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.

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

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

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

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

They will make a plunder of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters.

“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.

Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.