Jonah 2:6

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

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

Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

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.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’

for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

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.

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.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that his soul wasn’t left in Hades, and his flesh didn’t see decay.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.

Don’t let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.

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

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

“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.

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

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

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

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

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

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

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

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

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

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

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

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.

“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

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

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

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

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

By your power, you form the mountains, having armed yourself with strength.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

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.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

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.

He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.