Isaiah 38:18

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

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 must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

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.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them.

There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.

‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let’s declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’

You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

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.”

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

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

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

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!

Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”

Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

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,

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

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.

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

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

“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”

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.

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

For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”