Genesis 46:30

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

He enters into peace. They rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” His father wept for him.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

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.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.