Psalms 58:8
Hebrew Text— Psalms 58:8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
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The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:
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;
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”
Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Then the nations that are left around you will know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate. I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.”
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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.”
Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.
I went out after him, and struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’ ”
For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
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.
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to Yahweh’s word which he spoke.
The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to Yahweh’s word.
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.