Isaiah 38:11

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.”

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.

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.

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

But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

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;

For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking Yahweh to anger.

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

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

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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.”

Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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.

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

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

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.

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.”

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,

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

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

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

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.

My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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.

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!”

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

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.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look, and fail with longing for them all day long. There will be no power in your hand.

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

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.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

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

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

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

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

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it. Then you showed me their doings.

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.”

There will be no remnant to them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.’ ”

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.” ’

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

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.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”