Psalms 63:9

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

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

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

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.

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

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

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”

It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

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

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.

to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! Yahweh has avenged my lord the king today of Saul, and of his offspring.”

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm 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.

Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will shine.”

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.”

This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.

They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.

‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, “You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.”

“ ‘ “This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

“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 this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

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

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”

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

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

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

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

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.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

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

Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

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.

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the battle shout has fallen.

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.

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

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.

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

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

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into 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.