Psalms 49:14

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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.”

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

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.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can’t arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

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

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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:

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make,” says Yahweh of Armies.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

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

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Yahweh will lead you away.

Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

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

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

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.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

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

When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

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

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

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.

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

“To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

“Then a remnant of the nobles and the people came down. Yahweh came down for me against the mighty.

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

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

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.

The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

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

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

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

He will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: