Psalms 30:3

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.”

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

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.

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

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.

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

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.’

Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

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

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

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.

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

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.

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

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

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

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

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.

“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

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

The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

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.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

And behold, a pale horse, and the name of he who sat on it was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

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.”

The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

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

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

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

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

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

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,

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

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

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.

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.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

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.”

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

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.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

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.

“ ‘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.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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

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

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

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

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

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

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

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

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

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

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

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

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

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.