Psalms 139:8

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

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

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

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

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:

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

then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men)

Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

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

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

“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 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 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.

“ ‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.

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.

About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’

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.

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.

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

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

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

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.

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

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 reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells 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.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

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

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.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

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.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

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

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

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.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

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.

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

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

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

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

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.

Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”, but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.