Psalms 144:4

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Your sun will not go down any more, nor will your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will end.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance; the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

“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.”

For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

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

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

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.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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.”

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

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

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

“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.

both low and high, rich and poor together.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

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

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

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.

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.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”