Job 17:13

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

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

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

“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

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

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

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

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.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

After ten days, Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah.

They have set her a bed among the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are around her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit. He is put among those who are slain.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

“Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

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

Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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.”

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

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

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

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