Job 14 Cross References - ISV

¹ Human Beings Live and DieHuman beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble. ² He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn’t last. ³ Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this— to bring me into a legal fight with you? ⁴ Who can produce a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one! ⁵ Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You’ve set his limit and he cannot exceed it. ⁶ Look away from him and leave him alone, so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker.”
⁷ Death is Certain“There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won’t stop growing. ⁸ Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground, ⁹ the presence of water will make it to bud so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant. ¹⁰ “But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be? ¹¹ As water disappears from the sea, or water evaporates from a river, ¹² so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won’t awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep.”
¹³ There is Life after Death“Won’t you keep me safe in the afterlife? Conceal me until your anger subsides. Set an appointment for me, then remember me. ¹⁴ If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed. ¹⁵ You’ll call and I’ll answer you; you’ll long for your creatures that your hands have made. ¹⁶ Then you’ll certainly count every step I took, but you won’t keep an inventory of my sin. ¹⁷ My transgressions would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sins. ¹⁸ “Mountains fall and crumble; rocks are dislodged from their places. ¹⁹ Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land— but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that! ²⁰ You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away. ²¹ “If his children are honored, he doesn’t know it; if they become insignificant, he never perceives it. ²² He feels only his own pain, and grieves only for himself.”

⁹ “I’m 130 years old,” Jacob replied. “My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven’t yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth.”

⁷ But mankind is born headed for trouble, just as sparks soar skyward.”

¹ Job Acknowledges the Brevity of Life“Men have harsh servitude on earth, do they not? His days are like those of a hired laborer, are they not?

⁶ My days pass as swiftly as a hand-loom; they come to their conclusion without hope.

²⁵ Job Argues that God Won’t Acquit Him“My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.

¹⁴ “What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he’ll be in the right?

⁴ How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

⁵ Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude

⁵ Indeed, in iniquity I was brought forth; in sin my mother conceived me.

¹⁷ So I hated life, because whatever is done on earth causes me trouble—it’s all pointless, like chasing after the wind.

²³ Indeed, all of his days are filled with sorrow, and his struggles bring grief. In fact, his mind remains restless throughout the night. This is pointless, too!

¹¹ I tell all of you with certainty, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom from heaven is greater than he.

¹⁵ For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.

⁹ Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow.

²⁵ Job Argues that God Won’t Acquit Him“My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good. ²⁶ They pass by like a ship made of reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

⁵ You will sweep them away while they are asleep— by morning they are like growing grass. ⁶ In the morning it blossoms and is renewed, but toward evening, it fades and withers. ⁷ Indeed, we are consumed by your anger and terrified by your wrath. ⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, what we have concealed in the light of your presence. ⁹ All our days pass away in your wrath; our years fade away and end like a sigh.

⁷ Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.

¹² The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹¹ My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.

¹⁵ A person’s life is like grass— it blossoms like wild flowers, ¹⁶ but when the wind blows through it, it withers away and no one remembers where it was.

⁴ The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.

¹³ But things will not go well for the wicked person: he will not lengthen his life like a shadow, since he has no fear before God.

⁶ The Word of God Endures ForeverA voice says, “Cry out!” So I asked, “What am I to cry out?” “All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field. ⁷ Grass withers and flowers fade away when the LORD’s breath blows on them; surely the people are like grass. ⁸ Grass withers and flowers fade away, when the LORD’s breath blows on them, but the word of our God will stand forever. “

¹⁰ and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower. ¹¹ For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.

¹⁴ You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

²⁴ For “All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,

¹⁷ Job Acknowledges Humankind’s Insignificance“What is a human being, that you make so much of him; that you set your affections on him, ¹⁸ visit him every morning, and test him continually?

¹⁹ “Is this a contest of strength? He is obviously stronger! Is this a matter of justice? Who can sue him? ²⁰ Though I’m in the right, my own mouth will condemn me; though I’m blameless, he’ll pronounce me as guilty.

³² He’s not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.

²⁵ Are you a god who would make a leaf tremble or who would prosecute a dry straw?

²⁷ You’ve locked my feet in stocks; you watch all my steps; You’ve limited where I can walk.

⁴ what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him?

² Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

³ LORD, what are human beings, that you should care about them, or mortal man, that you should think about him?

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.

³ After Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son just like him, that is, according to his own likeness, and named him Seth.

⁴ How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure? ⁵ Behold, even the moon isn’t bright, and the stars aren’t pure in his eyes. ⁶ How much less is man, who is only a maggot, or a man’s children, who are only worms!”

⁵ You will sweep them away while they are asleep— by morning they are like growing grass.

³⁵ The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will surround you. Therefore, the child will be holy and will be called the Son of God.

⁶ What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

¹² Death in Adam, Life in the MessiahJust as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

⁸ Indeed, those who are under the control of human nature cannot please God.
⁹ You, however, are not under the control of the human nature but under the control of the Spirit, since God’s Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he does not belong to him.

³ Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

¹⁰ and that the life of every living thing rests in his control, along with the breath of every living human being?

¹⁴ If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.

²¹ What will they care for their household after them, when the number of his months comes to an end?”

¹³ Job Stands Petrified Before God“But he is One—who can change him? He does whatever he wants to do. ¹⁴ He’ll complete what he has planned for me; he has many things in mind for me!

⁴ “LORD, let me know how my life ends, and the standard by which you will measure my days, whatever it is! Then I will know how transient my life is.

⁹ You have set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

²⁹ When you withdraw your favor, they are disappointed; Take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

³⁵ All who live on the earth are nothing compared to him. He does what he wishes with the heavenly armies and with those who live on earth. No one can hold back his power or say to him, ‘What did you do?’

²⁶ These are the meanings of the words:MENE: God has audited your kingdom—and has ended it.

³⁰ That night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was killed,

²⁴ Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

³⁶ The King Who Calls Himself God“‘The king will do as he pleases. He’ll exalt and magnify himself above every god, speaking amazing things against the God of Gods. He’ll succeed until the indignation is completed, because what has been determined must be carried out.

²⁰ But God told him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you’ve accumulated?’

²⁶ From one man he made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth, fixing the seasons of the year and the national boundaries within which they live,

²⁷ Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

¹⁸ the living one. I was dead—but look!—I am alive forever and ever! I have the keys of Death and Hades.

⁷ The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia“To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia, write: ‘The one who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens a door that no one can shut, and who shuts a door that no one can open, ‘says this:

¹ Job Acknowledges the Brevity of Life“Men have harsh servitude on earth, do they not? His days are like those of a hired laborer, are they not? ² I’m like a servant who longs for the shade, like a hired laborer who is looking for his wages.

¹⁶ I hate the thought of living forever! Leave me alone, because my days are pointless.”

¹⁹ Why won’t you look away from me? Why don’t you leave me alone so I can swallow my saliva?

²⁰ My days are so few, aren’t they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little

¹³ Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more.

¹ The Workers in the Vineyard “The kingdom from heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing in the marketplace without work. ⁴ He told them, ‘You go into the vineyard, too, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ ⁵ So off they went. He went out again about noon and about three o’clock and did the same thing. ⁶ About five o’clock he went out and found some others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why are you standing here all day long without work?’ ⁷ They told him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He told them, ‘You go into the vineyard as well.’
⁸ “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.’

¹⁰ He is breaking me down on every side, and now it’s too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

¹ The Reign of the Davidic King “A shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch will bear fruit from his roots.

⁶ In times to come, Jacob will take root, and Israel will blossom, sprout shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.

¹⁵ Nevertheless, leave the stump and its roots in the ground, but bind it with iron and bronze in the field grass. Let him be drenched with dew from the sky, and let him graze with the animals in the grass of the earth.

²³ “Your majesty saw a holy observer descending from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump in the ground, along with its roots, bound with iron and bronze in the field grass. Let him be soaked with the dew of the sky and live with the wild animals of the field until seven seasons pass over him.’
²⁴ “This is the meaning, your majesty, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against his majesty, the king: ²⁵ You’ll be driven from people, and you’ll live among wild animals of the field. You’ll eat grass like cattle and be soaked with the dew of the sky while seven years pass you by—until you realize that the Most High is sovereign over human kingdoms and grants them to whomever he desires.

¹⁹ The Resurrection of the Dead“But your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Those who live in the dust will wake up and shout for joy! For your dew is like the dew of dawn, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

²⁴ Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.

³⁶ You fool! The seed you plant does not come to life unless it dies,

³ Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says, “A massive eagle with gigantic wings, long pinions, and full, multi-colored plumage came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar. ⁴ He plucked off the top of its shoot, brought it to a land of merchants, and set it down in a city full of traders. ⁵ Then the eagle took a seed from the land and planted it in fertile ground. He planted it like a willow tree next to abundant waters. ⁶ It flourished and became a low, spreading vine. Its branches turned toward him, and its roots spread under him to become a vine that put out shoots and spread out its branches.
⁷ “‘“All of a sudden, there was another eagle with gigantic wings and thick plumage. The vine stretched its roots hungrily toward him and spread its branches out to him in order to be watered on the terraces where it was planted. ⁸ It was transplanted into good soil near abundant water, and it produced branches and bore fruit, becoming a magnificent vine.”’
⁹ “Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says, “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and strip it bare so all its fresh foliage dries up? It won’t be by great strength or by a great army that it will be uprooted. ¹⁰ Look! Because it’s a transplanted vine, won’t it wither when the east wind hits it? It will surely wither in the terraces where it had started to sprout.”’”

²² The Transplanted VineThis is what the Lord GOD says, “I’m also going to take a shoot from the top of a cedar and plant it. I’ll pluck off its delicate twigs and transplant it on a high and lofty mountain. ²³ I’ll transplant it on Israel’s land, and it will grow branches, bear fruit, and become a majestic cedar. All sorts of birds will rest under it, and they’ll settle down in the shade of its branches. ²⁴ Then all the trees of the fields will know that I, the LORD, bring down the lofty tree and exalt the lowly tree. I dry up the green tree and cause the dry tree to bud. I the LORD have spoken this, and I will fulfill it.”

¹⁰ ‘Your mother was like a vine entwining a pomegranate, planted by water, full of fruit, and full of branches because it had been watered generously.

¹⁷ Now if some of the branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive branch, have been grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, ¹⁸ do not boast about being better than the other branches. If you boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹ Then you will say, “Branches were cut off so that I could be grafted in.” ²⁰ That’s right! They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you remain only because of faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid! ²¹ For if God did not spare the natural branches, he certainly will not spare you, either.
²² Consider, then, the kindness and severity of God: his severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness toward you—if you continue receiving his kindness. Otherwise, you too will be cut off. ²³ If the Jews do not persist in their unbelief, they will be grafted in again, because God is able to graft them in. ²⁴ After all, if you were cut off from what is naturally a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier it will be for these natural branches to be grafted back into their own olive tree!

³³ After concluding this set of instructions to his sons, Jacob tucked his feet up into bed, quit breathing, and was gathered to his ancestors.

¹¹ Why didn’t I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?

⁷ Remember that my life is a breath; my eyes won’t go back to seeing good things. ⁸ The eyes of the one who sees me won’t see me anymore; your eyes will look for me but I won’t be around! ⁹ As a cloud fades away and vanishes, the one who descends to the afterlife doesn’t return. ¹⁰ He doesn’t return again to his house, and his place won’t recognize him anymore.”

¹⁸ So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,

²⁰ But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath.”

¹² so also a person lies down and does not get up; they won’t awaken until the heavens are no more, nor will they arise from their sleep.”

¹³ “If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, ¹⁴ if I call out to the Pit, ‘You’re my father!’ or say to the worm, ‘My mother!’ or ‘My sister!’ ¹⁵ where would my hope be? “And speaking of my hope, who would notice it? ¹⁶ Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?”

²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,

³² The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

⁵⁰ Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice again and died.

²² “One day, the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. ²³ In the afterlife, where he was in constant torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus by his side.

¹⁰ She instantly fell down at Peter’s feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.

¹⁵ But my brothers have acted treacherously like a cascading river, like torrential rivers that overflow. ¹⁶ Filled with waters made cold by ice, they are where the snow goes to hide. ¹⁷ But then the snow melts, and they disappear; when warmed, they evaporate from their stream beds. ¹⁸ Travelers divert in their route; they go into a wasteland and die.

⁵ A Rebuke to Egypt’s Ecology and Industry“The water sources of the Nile will be dried up, and the river will become dry and parched.

¹⁸ Why is my pain unending and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
God’s Answer to Jeremiah’s Revised Complaint You are like a deceptive brook, whose waters cannot be depended on.

¹³ “If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,

²¹ Why haven’t you pardoned my transgression and taken away my iniquity? Now I’m about to lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I won’t be around!”

²¹ before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow. ²² It’s a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there’s no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.’”

²⁵ “As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. ²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God, ²⁷ whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him— there won’t be anyone else for me!— He is the culmination of my innermost desire.”

²³ I know that you’re about to kill me, so I’m about to go to the house that’s appointed for all the living.”

²⁶ They will perish, but you will remain; and they all will become worn out, like a garment. You will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.

¹⁹ For what happens to people also happens to animals—a single event happens to them: just as someone dies, so does the other. In fact, they all breathe the same way, so that a human being has no superiority over an animal. All of this is pointless. ²⁰ All of them go to one place: all of them originate from dust, and all of them return to dust.
²¹ Who knows whether the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether the spirit of animals descends to the earth?

⁵ At that time they will fear climbing heights and dangers along the road while the almond tree will blossom, and the grasshopper is weighed down. Desire will cease, because the person goes to his eternal home, and mourners will gather in the marketplace.

⁶ “Lift up your eyes, you heavens and look to the earth beneath; and see who created these. Its inhabitants will die just like this; but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never fail.

¹⁷ A New UniverseTake notice! I’m about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things won’t be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

²² “For as the new heavens and the new earth that I am about to make will endure before me,” says the LORD, “so will your descendants and your name endure.

² Many of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken—some to life everlasting, and some to disgrace and everlasting contempt.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.”

¹¹ These were the things he said.
Then after this, he told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m leaving to wake him up.”
¹² So the disciples told him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well.” ¹³ Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

²¹ He must remain in heaven until the time of universal restitution, which God announced long ago through the voice of his holy prophets.

²⁰ because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty

¹⁴ for the light is making everything visible. That is why it says, “Wake up, sleeper! Arise from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.’’

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him. ¹⁵ For we declare to you what the Lord has told us to say: We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have died.

⁷ Now by that same word, the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire and are being kept for the day when ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.

¹⁰ But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will disappear with a roaring sound, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be exposed.
¹¹ Since everything will be destroyed in this way, think of the kind of holy and godly people you ought to be ¹² as you look forward to and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be set ablaze and dissolved and the elements will melt with fire. ¹³ But in keeping with his promise, we are looking forward to new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

¹¹ The Vision of the White Throne JudgmentThen I saw a large, white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

¹ The Vision of the New Heaven and the New EarthThen I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and the sea was gone.

¹ The Waters RecedeGod kept Noah in mind, along with all the wildlife and livestock that were with him in the ark. God’s Spirit moved throughout the earth, causing the flood waters to subside.

¹⁷ In that place, the wicked stop causing trouble, and there, those whose strength is exhausted are at rest. ¹⁸ In that place, those who once were prisoners will be at ease together; they won’t hear the voice of oppressors. ¹⁹ The unimportant and the important are both there, and the servant is free from his master.

⁴ Remember me, LORD, when you show favor to your people. Visit us with your deliverance,

¹ Israel’s Praise to the LORD At that time, you will say: “I will praise you, LORD, for although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away, and you have comforted me.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by. ²¹ For see, the LORD is coming from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their sins; the earth will reveal the blood that has been shed on it, and will no longer conceal its slain.”

¹ Israel’s Idolatry “Also the righteous are perishing, but no one takes it to heart; devout people are taken away, while no one understands that the righteous person is taken away from calamity. ² Then he enters into peace, and they’ll rest on his couches, each one living righteously.

³² The Unknown Day and Hour of the Messiah’s Return
“No one knows when that day or hour will come—not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.

⁴² Then he went on to plead, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!”

⁷ He answered them, “It isn’t for you to know what times or periods the Father has fixed by his own authority.

³¹ because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world with justice through a man whom he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”

¹⁵ Even though he kills me, I’ll continue to hope in him. At least I’ll be able to argue my case to his face!

⁵ Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You’ve set his limit and he cannot exceed it.

²⁵ “As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil. ²⁶ Even after my skin has been destroyed, clothed in my flesh I will see God,

¹⁶ Job lived 140 years after this, and saw his children and grandchildren to the fourth generation.

¹⁴ Wait on the LORD. Be courageous, and he will strengthen your heart. Wait on the LORD!

¹ To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
Prayer for Help and Praise to God I waited expectantly for the LORD, and he took notice of me and heard my cry. ² He plucked me out of a pit of confusion, even out of the quicksand; he placed my feet on a rock and established my steps.

²⁵ The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the person who searches for him. ²⁶ It is good to hope and wait patiently for the LORD’s salvation.

¹ The Vision of the Valley of BonesThe LORD laid his hand on me and brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD to the middle of a valley that was filled with bones. ² He led me here and there throughout the valley, and I was amazed to see that the surface of the entire valley was covered with myriads of very dry bones! ³ The LORD asked me, “Son of Man, will these bones ever live?”
“Lord GOD,” I replied, “you know the answer to that!”
⁴ Then the LORD told me, “Prophesy to these bones. Tell them: ‘You dry bones, listen to the message from the LORD: “ ⁵ This is what the Lord GOD says to you dry bones! ‘Pay attention! I’m bringing my Spirit into you right now, and you’re going to live! ⁶ I’m going to grow tendons on you, regenerate your flesh, cover you with skin, and make you breathe again so that you can come back to life and learn that I am the LORD.’”’”
⁷ The Bones are Raised to LifeSo I prophesied, just as I had been ordered to do so. Immediately there was a noise and a rattling—and then all of a sudden the bones came together by themselves! Each bone came together, all of them attached together! ⁸ As I continued to watch, I saw tendons growing on the bones, and muscles growing and covering them, and then skin covered the flesh from above. But the bodies weren’t breathing. ⁹ Then he ordered me, “Prophesy to the Spirit, Son of Man. Tell the Spirit, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “Come from the four winds, you Spirit, and breathe into these people who have been killed, so they will live.”’” ¹⁰ So I prophesied as I had been ordered, breath entered them, and they began to live. They stood on their own feet as a vast, united army.
¹¹ The Vision is Interpreted for Ezekiel“These bones represent the entire house of Israel,” the LORD explained to me. “Look how they keep saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our future is lost. We’ve been completely eliminated!’ ¹² “Therefore prophesy to them, and tell them, ‘Watch me! I’m going to open your graves, lift you out of those graves, and bring my people back into the land of Israel. ¹³ Then you’ll learn that I am the LORD, when I’ve opened your graves and caused you to come up out of them, my people. ¹⁴ I’m going to place my Spirit in you all, and you will live. I’ll place you all into your land, and you’ll learn that I, the LORD, have been speaking and doing this,’ declares the LORD.’”

²⁹ Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken because you don’t know the Scriptures or God’s power, ³⁰ because in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven. ³¹ As for the resurrection from the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God when he said, ³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

²⁸ Don’t be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man’s voice ²⁹ and will come out—those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

⁸ Why is it thought incredible by all of you that God should raise the dead?

⁴² This is how it will be at the resurrection of the dead. What is planted is decaying, what is raised cannot decay. ⁴³ The body is planted in a state of dishonor but is raised in a state of splendor. It is planted in weakness but is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is planted a physical body but is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

⁵¹ Let me tell you a secret. Not all of us will die, but all of us will be changed— ⁵² in a moment, faster than an eye can blink, at the sound of the last trumpet. Indeed, that trumpet will sound, and then the dead will be raised never to decay, and we will be changed.

²¹ He will change our unassuming bodies and make them like his glorious body through the power that enables him to bring everything under his authority.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him. ¹⁵ For we declare to you what the Lord has told us to say: We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have died. ¹⁶ With a shout of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of God’s trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first.

⁷ Be PatientSo be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop from his land, being patient with it until it receives the fall and the spring rains. ⁸ You, too, must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.

¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and all were judged according to their actions.

³ Does it delight you to oppress or despise what you have made, while you smile at the plans of the wicked?

⁸ Your hands formed and fashioned me, but then you have destroyed me all at once on all sides.

²² Then call and I’ll answer, or let me speak and then you reply to me!”

⁴ He summoned the heavens above and the earth below, to sit in judgment on his people. ⁵ “Assemble before me, my saints, who have entered into my covenant by sacrifice.”

⁸ The LORD will complete what his purpose is for me. LORD, your gracious love is eternal; do not abandon your personal work in me.

¹⁷ Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

¹⁹ So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do what is good.

²⁸ Abide in HimEven now, little children, abide in him. Then, when he appears, we will have confidence and will not turn away from him in shame when he comes.

⁶ “‘For you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin.

¹⁴ If I sin, you watch me and won’t acquit me for my iniquity.

⁴ He watches my life, observing every one of my actions, does he not?”

¹¹ He has bound my feet in shackles, and keeps watching everything I do.’”

²¹ Yes, Job, his eyes constantly watch the behavior of human beings; he carefully observes their every step.

⁶ They gather together and hide in ambush. They watch my every step as they lie in wait for my life.

¹ To the Music Director: A Davidic Song
God’s Knowledge and Presence LORD, you have examined me; you have known me. ² You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you. ³ You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways. ⁴ Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely!

²¹ Indeed, what a man does is always in the LORD’s presence, and he weighs all his paths.

¹⁹ You are great in regards to your purposes and mighty in regards to your works. Your eyes are open to everything that people do, and will reward each one according to their ways and just as their actions deserve.

³⁴ The LORD’s Response“Is this not kept in reserve, sealed up with me in my treasury?

¹⁹ God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware.

¹² “Ephraim’s guilt is on record; his sin is stored away.

⁴ You’re tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?”

²⁵ You established the earth long ago; the heavens are the work of your hands. ²⁶ They will perish, but you will remain; and they all will become worn out, like a garment. You will change them like clothing, and they will pass away.

¹² Who is Like the LORD?“Who has measured the waters of the sea in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens by the width of his hand? Who has enclosed the dust of the earth in a measuring bowl, or weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

¹⁵ A Promise of Victory“See, I’m making you into a new, sharp, and multi-tooth threshing sledge. You’ll thresh and crush the mountains, and make the hills like chaff. ¹⁶ You’ll winnow them, and the wind will lift them up, and a tempest will blow them away. Then you’ll rejoice in the LORD, and you’ll make your boast in the Holy One of Israel.”

¹⁰ For the mountains may collapse and the hills may reel, but my gracious love will not depart from you, neither will my covenant of peace totter,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

¹ A Prayer for God to Intervene If only you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—

²⁴ I looked at the mountains; they were quaking, and all the hills moved back and forth.

⁵¹ Suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, rocks were split open,

¹⁴ The sky vanished like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

⁸ When the second angel blew his trumpet, something like a huge mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. One-third of the sea turned into blood,

¹⁷ “For my part, I’m about to flood the earth with water and destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.

²¹ Every living thing on earth died—flying creatures, livestock, wildlife, all creatures that swarm over the earth, and all human beings. ²² Everything that breathed and everything that had lived on dry land died. ²³ All existing creatures that had lived on the surface of the ground were annihilated, from humans to livestock, from crawling creatures to birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah remained, along with those who were with him in the ark.

⁸ For where is the hope of the godless when he is eliminated; when God takes away his life?

⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I will never be moved.” ⁷ By your favor, LORD, you established me as a strong mountain; Then you hid your face, and I was dismayed.

¹¹ The Vision is Interpreted for Ezekiel“These bones represent the entire house of Israel,” the LORD explained to me. “Look how they keep saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our future is lost. We’ve been completely eliminated!’

¹⁹ Then I’ll say to myself, “You’ve stored up plenty of good things for many years. Take it easy, eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’ ²⁰ But God told him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you’ve accumulated?’

¹² Observing him from a distance, at first they didn’t even recognize him, so they raised their voices and burst into tears. They each ripped their robes, threw ashes into the air on their heads,

⁸ Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

⁸ Now their faces are blacker than coal; they are unrecognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become dry like a stick.

²⁰ As she was about to die, the women standing around her said, “Don’t be afraid! You’ve given birth to a son.” But she did not respond or pay attention.

⁶ In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.

¹⁸ The Pointlessness of LaborThen I despised everything I had worked for on earth, that is, the things that I will leave to the person who will succeed me. ¹⁹ And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Either way, he will take possession of everything that I have done on earth, especially where I have excelled. This also is pointless.

⁵ At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.

⁷ ‘Then some of your own sons, who will come from your loins, whom you will father, will be taken away to become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
⁸ “The message from the LORD that you have spoken is good,” Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, since he was thinking, “…at least there will be peace and security in my lifetime.”

¹⁶ But you are our Father, even Abraham does not know us and Israel has not acknowledged us; you are he, O LORD, our Father, from long ago, ‘Our Redeemer’ is your name.

²⁰ I’m a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth.”

²² Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren’t you satisfied that I’m sick?

¹⁹ “He is being reproved by painful bed rest, with continual aching in his bones. ²⁰ He cannot stand his food, and he has no desire for appetizing food. ²¹ His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn’t be seen, are visible.

²³ In the afterlife, where he was in constant torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus by his side. ²⁴ So he shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me! Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool off my tongue, because I am suffering in this fire.’