Job 14 Cross References - Thomson

¹ He who is born of a woman waxeth old like a leathern bag: or like a garment which is moth eaten; for he is mortal, short lived and full of disquiet: ² or like a flower which fell when in bloom. He glideth away indeed like a shadow and can make no stay. ³ And is it not such a one thou hast called to account; and caused such a one to come to trial before thee? ⁴ For who can be free from stain? Surely none. ⁵ Whether the course of his life on earth be one day; or months be numbered out for him, he cometh to the term thou hast set, but cannot pass it. ⁶ Turn away from him, that he may take rest, and comfort his life like a hireling. ⁷ For there is hope for a tree; for if lopped, it may sprout again, and the tender branch may not fail. ⁸ And if its root become old in the earth, or die on a rock: ⁹ its stem by the scent of water may blossom; and produce a crop like a tree lately planted. ¹⁰ But when a man dieth he is gone: when a mortal falleth, he is no more. ¹¹ For in a course of time a sea is spent; and a river when unsupplied is dried up: ¹² and man when composed in the grave cannot rise again; until the heaven be folded up; they shall not be awakened from their sleep. ¹³ O! that thou hadst kept me in the mansion of the dead; and hid me till thine indignation should cease: and that thou wouldst set me a time when thou wouldst remember me; ¹⁴ [for though a man die he may be revived, after finishing the days of this life of his,] I would wait patiently, until I come again into existence. ¹⁵ Then call and I will answer. But reject not the works of thy hands. ¹⁶ Now thou hast numbered up my devices, and not one of my inadvertencies could escape thee. ¹⁷ Thou hast sealed up mine iniquities in a bag; and set a mark on every transgression, which I inadvertently committed. ¹⁸ But not to mention that a falling mountain will continue its fall; even a rock may by force be removed from its place. ¹⁹ Waters have worn stones smooth; and waters have washed away mounds of earth; and thou hast destroyed the patience of man. ²⁰ Thou hast brought him to an end, and he is gone: thou hast set thy face against him and dismissed him. ²¹ And though his children be multiplied, he knoweth it not: and if they become few in number, he doth not perceive it. ²² His flesh hath been for nothing but to suffer pain; and his soul only to suffer grief.

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life which I am now sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. They have not reached to the days of the years of the life of my fathers which they sojourned.

⁷ [a] But man is born for trouble, as the young of the vulture soar aloft,

¹ Is not the life of man on the earth a state of trial, and his days like the days of a hireling?

⁶ Though my life is swifter than a word; yet it is destroyed with vain hope.

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a courier. They are gone without being perceived.

¹⁴ For who being mortal can be irreprehensible? Or can the offspring of woman be righteous?

⁴ For how can a mortal be just before the Lord or any offspring of woman make himself clean?

⁵ Behold thou hast made my days old; and mine existence is as nothing before thee. The universe; every man living is vanity.

⁵ For behold I was born in iniquity; in sins my mother conceived me:

¹⁷ therefore I hated the whole of this life; because the work which was done under the sun was toilsome to me; because all are vanity and vexation of spirit:

²³ that all his days are days of sorrow and his employment grief, and even at night his heart hath no rest. Surely this is vanity.

¹¹ Verily I say to you, among them who are born of women, there hath not arisen a greater than John the baptist: but the least in the kingdom of heaven is a greater than he.

¹⁵ For we before thee are strangers and sojourners as all our fathers were. Our days on earth are like a shadow and there is no fixed abiding.

⁹ [for we are but of yesterday and know nothing; for our life on the earth is but a shadow]

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a courier. They are gone without being perceived. ²⁶ Is there any track left by ships in their passage? Or of an eagle flying in pursuit of its prey?

⁵ shall these trifling years of theirs be as if in the morning, a green herb passed away? ⁶ Should it in the morning bloom and pass away? In the evening it would have fallen, withered and become dry. ⁷ Because we have fallen short by thine anger, and by thine indignation have been troubled; ⁸ thou hast placed our iniquities before thee: let this age of ours be for the light of thy countenance. ⁹ Because all our days have fallen short; and we have failed by thine indignation; our years have exercised themselves like a spider.

⁷ When the wicked sprang up like grass; all the workers of iniquity had a glimpse that they should be destroyed forever.

¹² The righteous shall bloom like a palm tree; and be multiplied like a cedar on Lebanon.

¹¹ My days have flitted away like a shadow; and I am withered like mown grass.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass; like a flower of the field, so he may bloom. ¹⁶ Because a blast of wind passed over it, it is gone. It shall no more know its place.

⁴ Man is like vanity, his days glide away like a shadow.

¹³ and that it cannot be well with the wicked; and that he who is not awed by the presence of God cannot prolong his days at ease;

⁶ A voice of one saying, Proclaim. "Wherefore I said, What shall I proclaim? "All flesh is grass; and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. ⁷ [Omitted] ⁸ The grass is withered and the flower fallen; but the word of our God will endure forever."

¹⁰ and him who is rich, in his humiliation, because he shall pass away like a flower of the grass. ¹¹ For the sun riseth with its scorching heat, and withereth the blade, and the flower thereof failleth, and its beautiful appearance is gone. Just so will the rich man be blasted in his pursuits.

¹⁴ when you do not know what will be the result of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth.

²⁴ Because "all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth,

¹⁷ For what is man, that thou hast magnified him; or that thou payest attention to him? ¹⁸ Wilt thou keep a watch upon him till the morning. And judge him to the time of going to rest?

¹⁹ For because he is strong, he prevaileth. Who then can withstand his decrees? ²⁰ For if I am righteous shall my mouth be wicked?

³² For thou art not a man as I am, with whom I can contend; that we may come together to a trial.

²⁵ Canst thou be afraid of one who is like a leaf moved with a breath of wind? Or as against dried grass carried away with a blast, dost thou set thyself against me?

²⁷ and put my feet in a clog and watched all my doings; and hast tracked the soles of my feet.

⁴ what is man that thou shouldst be mindful of him, or a son of man that thou shouldst visit him!

² and enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living can be justified.

³ Lord, what is man that thou shouldst acknowledge him, or a son of man that thou shouldst regard him!

¹⁹ Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world stand convicted before God.

³ And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own likeness and after his own image, and called his name Seth.

⁴ For how can a mortal be just before the Lord or any offspring of woman make himself clean? ⁵ If he setteth the moon beside him, it shineth not: and the stars are not pure in his sight. ⁶ Grant then that man is rottenness and that the son of man is a worm.

⁵ shall these trifling years of theirs be as if in the morning, a green herb passed away?

³⁵ And the angel answering, said to her, A holy spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee, therefore the holy offspring will be called the son of God.

⁶ That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.

¹² on this account; as sin entered into this world by one man, and death by sin, and so death for which all sinned passed through unto all men:

⁸ they therefore who are in a carnal state cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in a carnal state, but in a spiritual state, if indeed the spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any one hath not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

³ among whom when we also were all formerly leading our lives in the desires of our flesh, executing the dictates of the flesh, and the imaginations, and were naturally children of wrath even as the rest;

¹⁰ Is not the life of all living beings in his hand; and the breath of every man?

¹⁴ [for though a man die he may be revived, after finishing the days of this life of his,] I would wait patiently, until I come again into existence.

²¹ Because his desire is in his family with him; therefore the number of their months should be cut short.

¹³ But if he hath judged thus, who can gainsay him? For he hath done what was his pleasure. ¹⁴ For this cause my shuddering is at him; and on being chastened, I thought of him.

⁴ Make known to me, Lord mine end; and the number of my days, what it is. That I may know what I lack of it.

⁹ Thou has set a bound which they shall not pass; nor shall they return to cover the earth.

²⁹ But when thou deniest, they are troubled. Withdraw their breath, they die and return to their dust:

³⁵ and all the inhabitants of the earth are reckoned as nothing; and he doth according to his pleasure in the army of heaven and in the habitations of the earth; and there is none who can stay his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done.

²⁶ The interpretation of the decree is this. Mane; God hath measured thy kingdom and brought it to a conclusion.

³⁰ And that very night Baltasar the Chaldean king was slain,

²⁴ Seventy weeks are set apart for thy people and for the holy city; for finishing sin offerings, and for sealing up sin offerings; and blotting out iniquities, and making atonement for iniquities; and for bringing in an everlasting righteousness; and for sealing vision and prophet; and for anointing the Holy of Holies.

³⁶ Because it is still for a time, therefore he will act according to his pleasure. And this king will be exalted and magnified above every god, and will speak swelling words, and prosper until the indignation is completed: for it is coming to a completion.

²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

²⁶ and hath made of one blood the whole nation of men to inhabit the whole face of the earth, having marked out times previously arranged in order, and the boundaries of their habitation,

²⁷ And as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that there is a judgment;

¹⁸ even he who liveth. Though I was dead yet behold I am alive, and live for the ages of the ages, Amen. And I have the keys of the mansion of the dead, and of death.

⁷ And to the angel of the congregation at Philadelphia write thus saith the Holy one and the True, who hath the key [the Son] of David, who openeth and none shutteth, and who shutteth and none openeth,

¹ Is not the life of man on the earth a state of trial, and his days like the days of a hireling? ² Is he not like a servant, who in a shade is afraid of his lord? Or like a hireling waiting for his hire?

¹⁶ For I am not to live forever, that I should bear patiently. Withdraw from me; for my life is vanity.

¹⁹ How long wilt thou not let me alone: nor let me go, that I may swallow my spittle?

²⁰ Is not the term of my life of short duration? permit me to enjoy a little repose:

¹³ O spare me that I may recover strength; before I go hence and be no more.

¹ For the reign of the heavens is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. ² And having agreed with some labourers for a deniar a day, he sent them to his vineyard. ³ And going out about the third hour he saw some standing in the market place, unemployed, ⁴ and said to them, Go ye also to the vineyard and I will give you what is reasonable. So they went. ⁵ Again about the sixth and ninth hour he went out and did the same. ⁶ And having gone out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing unemployed, and saith to them, Why have you stood here all the day unemployed? ⁷ They say to him, Because no one hath hired us. He saith to them, Go ye also to the vineyard and you shall receive what is reasonable. ⁸ And in the evening the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the labourers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.

¹⁰ He broke me on every side and I fled: and he hath cut down my hope like a tree.

¹ And there shall spring up a shoot from the root of Jessai; even from that root shall spring up a blooming shoot;

⁶ [p] They who are coming are children of Jacob. Israel shall bloom and blossom; and the World shall be filled with his fruit.

¹⁵ But leave the stump of its roots in the earth; and in a band of iron and brass and in the green grass abroad and in the clew of heaven let it abide: and let its portion be with the wild beasts in the grass of the earth.

²³ And inasmuch as the king saw an Eir, even a holy one descending from heaven who said, Cut down that tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth; and in a band of iron and brass and in the green grass abroad and in the dew of heaven let it abide; and let its portion be with the wild beasts of the field until seven seasons revolve over it; ²⁴ This, king, is the interpretation thereof and the decree of the Most High which is about to come upon my lord the king. ²⁵ Thou wilt be driven from among men; and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; and they will feed thee with grass like an ox; and thou shalt lodge in the dew of heaven; and seven seasons shall revolve over thee, till thou be made sensible that the Most High ruleth over the kingdom of men and can give it to whom he will.

¹⁹ [p] The dead shall be raised up again, even they in the tombs shall be raised up: and they in this land shall be filled with joy: for the dew from thee is healing for them; but the land of the ungodly shall fall.

²⁴ Verily, verily I say to you, If the grain of wheat which falleth on the ground dieth not, it remaineth a single grain. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

³⁶ Simpleton! that which thou thyself sowest is not quickened unless it dieth.

³ and thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, There was a great eagle with large wings, rapid in its motion and completely furnished with talons: and it winged its way to Libanus, and took hold of its choicest cedar; ⁴ and cropped the tops of the tender branch and brought them to the land of Chanaan, and in a walled city they were deposited. ⁵ Then he took a seedling of the land, and planted it in a field by much water, and ordered it to be taken care of. ⁶ And it sprang up and became a vine weak and small, so that its branches could be seen only by them near it. But it had roots underneath it, so it grew to be a vine, and put forth shoots and extended its tendrils. ⁷ And there was another eagle with large wings and many talons: and lo! this vine warped towards him, and its roots were towards him and it shot out its branches for him, that he might water it together with the shoot of its own planting, ⁸ which being in a good soil by much water grew luxuriantly, so as to blossom and bear fruit, and become a great vine. ⁹ Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord, Shall it prosper? Shall not the roots of this tender shoot and its fruit be blasted? Yes; all its former shoots shall wither; so that it will not require a strong arm nor much people to pull it up by its roots. ¹⁰ Though behold it is luxuriant, shall it prosper; shall it not wither at the first touch of a blasting wind? Both it and its sprouting shoot shall be withered.

²² For thus saith the Lord, I will myself take one of the choicest cedars from a summit; [their hearts I will nip] and I will plant it on a lofty mountain; ²³ I will cause it to be suspended on a lofty mountain of Israel; and I will plant it, and it shall blossom and bear fruit, and become a great cedar; and under it shall rest every bird, even all the winged tribe shall repose in its shade: its branches shall be renewed: ²⁴ and all the trees of the plain shall know that I am the Lord who bringeth down the lofty tree, and exalteth the tree which is low, and who causeth the green tree to wither, and the withered tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and I will perform.

¹⁰ Thy mother was like a vine or a flowery pomegranate planted by water. It was fruitful and full of buds by being plentifully watered.

¹⁷ And if some of the branches are broken off, and thou being a wild olive art ingrafted among them and become a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, ¹⁸ boast not against the branches. But if thou boast [remember that] thou dost not support the root, but the root supporteth thee. ¹⁹ Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be ingraffed. ²⁰ Well! They were broken off for their disbelief, and thou standest for thy belief. Be not high minded; but fear; ²¹ For if God spared not the natural branches, perhaps he may not spare thee. ²² Behold then the kindness and the severity of God: severity against them indeed who have fallen, and kindness to thee if thou continue in that kindness, otherwise thou also wilt be cut off. ²³ And with respect to them, if they continue not in their disbelief, they shall be ingraffed. For God is able to ingraff them again. ²⁴ For if thou hast been cut from a natural wild olive tree, and contrary to nature graffed on a good olive tree; how much more shall they that are natural branches be graffed on their own olive tree.

³³ And when Jacob had finished this charge to his sons he drew up his feet into the bed and gave up the ghost and was added to his people.

¹¹ for why did I not end my days in the womb? Or when I came forth from the belly why did I not instantly perish?

⁷ Remember therefore that my life is but a breath; and that mine eyes shall never return again to see good. ⁸ The eye of him who seeth me now shall not see me again. Thine eyes are upon me and I am gone. ⁹ I am like a cloud swept clean away from the sky. For when a man goeth down to the mansion of the dead; ¹⁰ he can never reascend again; he can never return again to his own house; nor shall his place know him any more.

¹⁸ Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? And why did I not die without an eye seeing me;

²⁰ But safety shall forsake them: for their hope shall be their destruction; and the eyes of the wicked shall melt away.

¹² and man when composed in the grave cannot rise again; until the heaven be folded up; they shall not be awakened from their sleep.

¹³ For though I have waited patiently, the mansion of the dead is to be my house, and my bed is made in darkness. ¹⁴ I have called on death to be my father; and on corruption to be my sister and mother. ¹⁵ Where then have I any ground of hope? Or shall I see those good things of mine? ¹⁶ Shall they go down with me to the mansion of the dead? Or shall we go together beneath the mound?

²⁶ who is about to dissolve me on earth, to raise again this skin of mine which draweth up these things.

³² A wicked man shall be driven away by his wickedness; but in his sanctity the righteous is secure.

⁵⁰ And Jesus, having cried again with a loud voice, expired.

²² At length this poor man died, and was carried by angels to Abraham's bosom. And the rich man died also, and was buried. ²³ And in the mansion of the dead having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he seeth Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.

¹⁰ At that instant she fell at his feet and expired. And the young men coming in found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

¹⁵ my nearest friends did not regard me: like a failing brook, or like a wave of the sea, they passed me by. ¹⁶ They who had assiduously paid me court, now made me a slight visit, like snow or hoar frost, ¹⁷ which melting at the approach of heat, the place where it was is not known. ¹⁸ Thus was I forsaken by all, and being undone, I became an outcast.

⁵ The Egyptians drink water even that near the sea, but the river shall fail and be dried up;

¹⁸ Why do they who grieve me prevail over me? My wound is deep, how can I be healed? It is indeed become to me like deceitful water which cannot be trusted.

¹³ I might now have lain still and been quiet; I might have gone to sleep and been at rest;

²¹ Why hast thou not made an oblivion of my transgression; or a purification for my sin? Now therefore let me depart into the earth: and when thou risest in the morning, I am no more.

²¹ before I go, whence I shall not return; ²² to a land dark and gloomy; to a land of everlasting darkness; where there is no light; no seeing the life of mortals.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal, ²⁶ who is about to dissolve me on earth, to raise again this skin of mine which draweth up these things. ²⁷ For from the Lord those things have been done to me, of which I alone am conscious; which mine eyes have seen, and no other; and which have all been done to me in my bosom.

²³ For I know that death will destroy me: for earth is the house for every mortal.

²⁶ They shall perish; but thou wilt endure: they shall all wax old like a garment; and like a mantle thou wilt fold them up and they shall be changed:

¹⁹ that at least which befalleth man, befalleth them; and that which befalleth the beast befalleth man. The same event happeneth to both. As the one dieth, so doth the other. And they have all one breath. What advantage then hath man over the beast? None: for all are vanity. ²⁰ They are all for one place. They were all from dust: and to dust they shall all return. ²¹ And who hath seen the breath of the sons of men whether it ascendeth upwards; and the breath of the beast, whether it descendeth downwards into the earth?

⁵ and they will look up to the height and there are terrors in the way. Though the almond tree shall have bloomed and the locust hath been fattened and the caper bush is shed, because the man is gone to his long home, therefore the mourners have made a circuit in the market place.

⁶ Turn up your eyes to heaven; then look down on the earth below! for the heaven is like smoke condensed, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and like those things the inhabitants shall perish: but my salvation shall endure forever, and my saving mercy shall never fail.

¹⁷ for there shall be a new heaven and the earth shall be new: and they shall no more remember former things, nor shall they ever come again into their mind.

²² For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, shall remain in my presence, saith the Lord; so shall your seed and your name be established.

² And many of them who sleep in mounds of earth shall be raised up, some for everlasting life and some for disgrace and everlasting shame.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall fail; but my words shall not fail.

¹¹ Thus he spake, and after that he saith to them, Our friend Lazarus is composed to rest; but I am going to wake him. ¹² Thereupon his disciples said, Master, if he is composed to rest, he will recover. ¹³ Now Jesus spoke of his death; but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

²¹ whom the heaven must receive till the time of the consummation of all which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets of old:

²⁰ For to vanity this creation was subjected, not as a voluntary agent, but by him who subjected it to a hope

¹⁴ therefore it is said, "Awake thou who sleepest and arise from the dead and the Christ will shine upon thee.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so [should we] also, that God will, by the agency of Jesus, bring with him them who are composed to rest. ¹⁵ For this we tell you by a word of the Lord, that we the living who are left till the coming of the Lord shall not anticipate them who are laid to rest

⁷ but the heavens and the earth which now exist are, by the same word, treasured up for fire, being kept for the day of judgment, and destruction of these impious men.

¹⁰ Now the day of the Lord will come, as a thief at night, when the heavens with a crashing roar shall pass away, and the elements shall be dissolved by fire, and the earth, and all the works thereon, shall be burned up. ¹¹ Therefore as all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness, ¹² expecting, and eagerly desiring, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens, all on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with intense heat, ¹³ and we, according to his promise, expect new heavens, and a new earth in which dwelleth righteousness!

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat thereon from whose presence the earth and the heaven fled away and there was no place found for them.

¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth were passed away and the sea is no more.

¹ Now God had remembered Noe and all the beasts and all the cattle and all the fowls and all the reptiles which creep, even all that were with him in the ark; and God brought a wind over the earth and aswaged the water.

¹⁷ There the wicked have ceased to be a terror: there the weary have got rest for their body: ¹⁸ and they of old who are assembled there together; have never heard the exactor's voice. ¹⁹ Small and great are there on a level; the servant, with his dreaded lord.

⁴ Remember us, Lord, affectionately as thy people, visit us with thy salvation;

¹ And on that day thou wilt say, I bless thee, Lord; because, though thou wast angry with me, thou hast turned away thy wrath and pitied me.

²⁰ Go my people, enter into thy chambers; shut thy door: hide thyself for a little while; until the anger of the Lord is passed. ²¹ For behold the Lord from his sanctuary is about to bring wrath on the inhabitants of this land; and the land will disclose the blood on it, and will no longer cover the slain.

¹ You see how a righteous one was destroyed, and no one layeth it to heart. And righteous men are taken away, and no one observeth, that on account of iniquity the righteous one was taken away. ² His sepulture shall be in peace. He is taken from among you.

³² But with respect to the day, and the season, that none knoweth; neither the angels who are in heaven, nor the son none but the father.

⁴² Then he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest to thy kingdom.

⁷ Whereupon he said to them, It is not for you to know times and seasons which the Father hath reserved in his own disposal.

³¹ because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world righteously, by a man whom he hath pointed out: of which he hath given assurance to all men, by raising him. from the dead.

¹⁵ Though the Almighty, as he hath begun, may subdue me: yet I will speak and plead before him.

⁵ Whether the course of his life on earth be one day; or months be numbered out for him, he cometh to the term thou hast set, but cannot pass it.

²⁵ For I know that he is eternal, ²⁶ who is about to dissolve me on earth, to raise again this skin of mine which draweth up these things.

¹⁶ And Job lived after this affliction a hundred and seventy years. So that all the years which he lived were two hundred and forty. And Job saw his children and his children's children, to the fourth generation,

¹⁴ Wait for the Lord and be of good courage; let thy heart be strengthened and wait for the Lord.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. I Waited patiently for the Lord and he attended to me and heard my prayer: ² and brought me up from a horrible pit and from miry clay; and set my feet on a rock and directed my steps,

²⁵ The Lord is gracious to them who wait for him for the soul, that will seek him, ²⁶ there is good; let it therefore wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

¹ Then the hand of the Lord came upon me. And the Lord led me out in spirit and set me in the midst of a plain which was full of human bones. ² And he led me all around them. And lo! there was an immense quantity on the surface of the plain, and they were very dry. ³ And he said to me, Son of man, shall these bones revive? Whereupon I said, Lord, Lord, thou knowest such things. ⁴ Then he said to me, Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them, Ye bones which are dry, hear a word of the Lord, ⁵ Thus saith the Lord to these bones, Behold I will bring upon you a breath of life; ⁶ and upon you I will lay sinews; and I will bring flesh on you and stretch skin over you, and put my breath in you and you shall live: and you shall know, that I am the Lord. ⁷ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and it came to pass that, when I had prophesied, behold there was a tremulous motion and it brought the bones together, every one to its proper place. ⁸ And I beheld and lo! sinews and flesh were grown upon them, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. ⁹ Then he said to me, Prophesy to the wind. Prophesy, Son of man and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord, From the four winds, come and blow on these dead and let them live. ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath came into them and they became alive and stood on their feet, an exceeding great multitude. ¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to me saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, "Our bones are become dry. Our hope is gone. We are wasted to a shadow." ¹² Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will open your graves; and bring you up out of your tombs and bring you into the land of Israel, ¹³ and you shall know that I am the Lord. When I have opened your graves that I may bring up my people out of the graves ¹⁴ I will then put my breath in you and you shall live.and I will settle you in your own land; and you shall know that I am the Lord. I have spoken and I will perform, saith the Lord.

²⁹ In reply to which, Jesus said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. ³⁰ For in the future state, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. ³¹ But in respect to the revival of the dead. Have you not read what was spoken to you: by God, saying, ³² "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob," God is not the God of the dead; but of the living.

²⁸ Wonder not at this; for a time is coming when all that are in the graves shall hearken to his voice, ²⁹ and come forth; they who have done good, to a resurrection of life, and they who have done evil, to a resurrection of condemnation.

⁸ It is deemed among you somewhat incredible that God raiseth the dead;

⁴² Thus it is also with respect to the resurrection of the dead. That which is sown, is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; ⁴³ it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: ⁴⁴ it is sown an animal body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animal body; and there is a spiritual body.

⁵¹ Behold I tell you a secret: We shall not all be composed to rest; but we shall all be changed ⁵² in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for it will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

²¹ who will transform the body of this our humble state, that it may be made conformable to his glorious body, according to the energy of his power to subject all to himself.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so [should we] also, that God will, by the agency of Jesus, bring with him them who are composed to rest. ¹⁵ For this we tell you by a word of the Lord, that we the living who are left till the coming of the Lord shall not anticipate them who are laid to rest ¹⁶ that the Lord himself, with an authoritative command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall be raised first;

⁷ Wherefore be ye, brethren, patient till the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruits of the earth, waiting for them with patience, until it hath received the former and the latter rain. ⁸ Wait ye also with patience. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.

¹³ And the sea delivered up the dead in it; and death and the mansion of the dead delivered up the dead in them; and they were judged, every one according to his works.

³ Is it agreeable to thee that I should commit iniquity; seeing thou hast rejected the works of thy hands; and favoured the counsel of the wicked?

⁸ Thy hands have fashioned me and made me. After that thou hast changed thy mind and smitten me.

²² Then call and I will answer thee: or speak and I will make thee a reply.

⁴ He will call to the heaven above and to the earth, to judge his people. ⁵ [rather his saints together to him; them who are in covenant with him touching sacrifices;

⁸ Thou, Lord wilt retribute for me. Lord, thy mercy endureth forever; overlook not the works of thy hands.

¹⁷ afterwards we who are left alive shall, together with them, be conveyed in clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall be forever with the Lord.

¹⁹ Let them therefore who suffer according to the will of God, commit their souls to him in well doing, as to a faithful creator.

²⁸ And now, children, abide in him, that when he shall appear we may have confidence, and not be made ashamed by him at his coming.

⁶ that thou hast sought out mine iniquity, and diligently traced my sins?

¹⁴ If I indeed have sinned inadvertently, thou hast me in custody, and hast not acquitted me of transgression.

⁴ Why will he not behold my way and number all my steps?

¹¹ He hath put my foot in a clog, and watched all my ways."

²¹ For he is the observer of men"s actions, and nothing that they do can escape his notice:

⁶ Some are to dwell near and hide themselves: some are to watch my footsteps.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. LORD, thou hast proved me and known me. ² Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up. Thou from afar understandest my thoughts. ³ Thou has tracked my path and my line: and hast seen distinctly all my ways; ⁴ that there is not an evil word on my tongue. Behold thou, Lord, knowest all things;

²¹ For the ways of a husband are before the eyes of God, and he examineth narrowly all his paths.

¹⁹ Thou art the God, the Great, the Mighty One, the Lord of great counsel, and mighty in works, the Mighty Omnipotent God, and the Lord of great renown. Thine eyes are on the ways of the children of men to give to every one according to his way.

³⁴ Behold! are not these things stored up with me? And sealed up among my treasures?

¹⁹ His substance should fail from among his children. He should retribute to him. And he should know it.

¹² and in my wrath restrained the whirlwind of Ephraim's iniquity. As his sin is carefully laid up in store,

⁴ Passion hath taken possession of thee. What! If thou die, shall the earth be uninhabited? Or the mountains overturned from their foundations?

²⁵ Thou Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ²⁶ They shall perish; but thou wilt endure: they shall all wax old like a garment; and like a mantle thou wilt fold them up and they shall be changed:

¹² Who hath measured the water with his hand, and the heaven with a span and the whole earth with a hand breadth? Who hath weighed the mountains in scales and the dales with a balance?

¹⁵ Behold I have made thee like the wheels of a wain bruising to pieces a brood of pigeons: thou indeed shalt grind mountains and reduce hills to small pieces, and make them like dust: ¹⁶ and thou shalt winnow them; and a wind shall take them up, and a whirlwind shall sweep them away; but thou shalt be gladdened in the sanctuaries of Israel;

¹⁰ and that thy hills should no more be moved; so my kindness for thee shall not fail, nor shall the covenant of thy peace ever be changed: for he said for thee, Be appeased, Lord."

¹ If thou wilt open the heaven, at thy presence terror will seize the mountains, and they will melt

²⁴ I beheld the mountains; and they were trembling, and all the hills were in perturbation.

⁵¹ And lo! the veil of temple was rent in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked and the rocks were rent

¹⁴ and the heaven recoiled like a scroll rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved from their places,

⁸ And the second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain blazing with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood;

¹⁷ Now behold I am going to bring a flood of water upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven, and all that are on the earth shall die;

²¹ And all animate flesh on the earth of fowls and cattle and wild beasts and every moving reptile on the earth and every man died. ²² Every thing which hath the breath of life, even every thing which was on the dry land died. ²³ It swept away every thing raised up, which was on the face of the earth, man and cattle and reptiles and the fowls of the air. They were swept away from the earth, and Noe alone was left and they who were with him in the ark.

⁸ Now whatever hope a wicked man hath, that he persisteth; shall he who hath trusted in the Lord be indeed safe?

⁶ As for me, I, in my prosperity, said, I can never be moved: ⁷ [To my comeliness, thou, Lord, in thy good pleasure hadst added strength] but thou didst turn away thy face, and I was involved in trouble.

¹¹ Then the Lord spoke to me saying, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Now they say, "Our bones are become dry. Our hope is gone. We are wasted to a shadow."

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul; Soul, thou hast many good things laid up in store for many years: take thine ease; eat; drink; and be joyful. ²⁰ Whereupon God said to him; Fool, this very night this soul of thine will be demanded of thee. Whose then will those things be which thou hast provided?

¹² but seeing him at a distance they did not know him. Then raising their voices they wept aloud, and having rent each his robe and sprinkled themselves with dust,

⁸ No man is absolute commander over wind to stop the current of it, and over the day of death he hath no authority; nor is there a discharge in the day of battle; nor can wickedness save him who is under its sway.

⁸ Their visage became blacker than soot. They are not distinguished in the streets. Their skin is shrivelled to their bones. They are withered. They are become like a stick.

²⁰ . And when she was at the point of death, the women who attended her, said, Fear not, for thou

⁶ Man indeed walketh about as an image; still he troubleth himself in vain. He heapeth up treasures and knoweth not for whom he is to gather them.

¹⁸ and I hated all this labour of mine for which I am toiling under the sun; because I must leave it to a man who is coming after me; ¹⁹ and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Now if he hath power over all my labour for which I have toiled and in which I have displayed wisdom under the sun; surely this is vanity.

⁵ because they who are alive must know that they shall die; but the dead are not sensible of any thing and there is no more a portion for them; because the remembrance of these is forgotten,

⁷ That of thy children whom thou shalt beget, they will take some and make them eunuchs in the house of the king of the Babylonians. ⁸ And Ezekias said to Esaias, Good is the word of the Lord which he spake: let there be, I pray, peace and righteousness in my days.

¹⁶ For thou art our father. Because Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel hath not acknowledged us; do thou, Lord, our father, do thou deliver us. From the beginning thy name is upon us;

²⁰ The flesh next my skin became rotten, and my bones begin to be corroded.

²² Why do you persecute me as the Lord doth, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

¹⁹ Again he hath rebuked him with sickness on a bed, and benumbed all his bones; ²⁰ so that he cannot take any nourishment, [though his soul longeth for food] ²¹ until his flesh become rotten, and he can show his bones bare.

²³ And in the mansion of the dead having lifted up his eyes, being in torment, he seeth Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom. ²⁴ Whereupon he cried and said, Father, Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.