Psalms 116:3

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In Yahweh’s name I indeed cut them off.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

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.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

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,

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

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.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

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.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

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.

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

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”

“Yahweh kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!”

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

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.

Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

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

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,