Ezekiel 32:23

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

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

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.

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

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

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!

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

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

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.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.

“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

In their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, ‘Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the middle of the sea?’

“ ‘ “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.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

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

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

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

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

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

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

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

The praise of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they have devised evil against her: ‘Come! Let’s cut her off from being a nation.’ You also, Madmen, will be brought to silence. The sword will pursue you.

They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

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!”

and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

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.

They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

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.

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

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

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

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

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

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

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail from you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, “Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how, when you and I rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:

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

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

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

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

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

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

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

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.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

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.”

I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before those who seek their life. I will bring evil on them, even my fierce anger,’ says Yahweh; ‘and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.

“For I have put his terror in the land of the living. He will be laid among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.

in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.