Psalms 88:4

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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,

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

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.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

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.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

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.

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

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

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

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

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.

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

“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.

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

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.

Behold, you have driven me out today from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. Whoever finds me will kill me.”

Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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

You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

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

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

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.

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

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

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

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.

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.’

“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.

So the king of the north will come and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city. The forces of the south won’t stand, neither will his chosen people, neither will there be any strength to stand.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

“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.

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

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.

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

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.

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

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