Isaiah 38 Cross References - LEB

¹ In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Order your house, for you are about to die, and you shall not recover.'" ² Then* Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, ³ and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how* I have walked before your _⌊presence_⌋* in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept with great weeping. ⁴ Then* the word of Yahweh came* to Isaiah, saying, ⁵ "Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor:* "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. _⌊Look, I am going to_⌋* add fifteen years to your days. ⁶ And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city." ' ⁷ And this is the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken: ⁸ Look! I will cause the shadow of the steps, which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, to turn backwards ten steps." And the sun turned back ten steps on the steps which it had gone down. ⁹ A writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he was sick and had recovered from his sickness: ¹⁰ I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years." ¹¹ I said, "I shall not see Yah! Yah in the land of the living! I shall no more look at humankind among the inhabitants of the world. ¹² My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end. ¹³ I lie down* until morning; like a lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end. ¹⁴ Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support! ¹⁵ What can I say? For* he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. ¹⁶ Lord, they live by them, and the life of my spirit belongs to all among them. And restore me to health and keep me alive! ¹⁷ Look! Bitterness was bitter to me for peace. And you were the one who loved* my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸ For Sheol cannot praise you; death cannot praise you. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. ¹⁹ The living, the living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children. ²⁰ Yahweh, save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the temple* of Yahweh." ²¹ And Isaiah said, "Let them _⌊take_⌋* a lump of figs, and let them rub it on the boil _⌊so that_⌋* he may recover." ²² And Hezekiah said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the temple* of Yahweh?"

²³ When Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. _⌊After he set his house in order_⌋,* he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.*

¹ In those days Hezekiah became _⌊deathly ill_⌋,* and Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Command your house, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'" ² Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying, ³ "O Yahweh, please remember how I went about before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and remember the good that I have done in your eyes." Then Hezekiah _⌊wept bitterly_⌋.* ⁴ Isaiah had not gone out from the middle of the city when the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, ⁵ "Return; you must say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh the God of David your ancestor,* "I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Look, I am about to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the temple of Yahweh. ⁶ I will add to your days fifteen years, and from the hand of the king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of David my servant." '" ⁷ Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs," so they took and put it on the skin sores, and he lived. ⁸ Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that Yahweh will heal me that I shall go up on the third day to the temple of Yahweh?" ⁹ Isaiah said, "This is the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or shall it return ten steps?" ¹⁰ Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backwards ten steps." ¹¹ Isaiah the prophet called to Yahweh, and he brought back the shadow on the steps where it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten steps.

²⁴ In those days Hezekiah fell ill unto death, and he prayed to Yahweh. And he answered him and gave him a sign.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do—do it with all your might; for in Sheol—where you are going—no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything.

¹ The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

² And he sent Eliakim, who was _⌊in charge of_⌋* the palace,* and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the priests _⌊covered_⌋* with sackcloth to Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet.

²¹ And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'Because you have prayed to me _⌊concerning_⌋* Sennacherib, king of Assyria,

¹ In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Order your house, for you are about to die, and you shall not recover.'" ² Then* Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, ³ and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how* I have walked before your _⌊presence_⌋* in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept with great weeping. ⁴ Then* the word of Yahweh came* to Isaiah, saying, ⁵ "Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor:* "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. _⌊Look, I am going to_⌋* add fifteen years to your days. ⁶ And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city." ' ⁷ And this is the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken: ⁸ Look! I will cause the shadow of the steps, which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, to turn backwards ten steps." And the sun turned back ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.

³ And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?" And Hezekiah _⌊answered_⌋,* "They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon." ⁴ And he* said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezekiah _⌊answered_⌋,* "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing that I have not shown them in my storehouses."

⁷ One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy it.* ⁸ But if that nation turns back from its evil that I have threatened against it, then I will relent concerning the disaster that I planned to do to it. ⁹ And the next moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant it.* ¹⁰ But if it does evil in my sight, to not listen to my voice, then I will relent concerning the good that I said I would do to it.

⁴ And Jonah began to go into the city a journey of one day, and he cried out and said, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be demolished!"*

¹⁰ And God saw their deeds—that they turned from their evil ways—and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.*

¹ Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. ² (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) ³ So the sisters sent word* to him, saying, "Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick." ⁴ And when he* heard it,* Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it." ⁵ (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

³⁷ Now it happened that in those days after* becoming sick, she died. And after* washing her,* they placed her in an upstairs room.

²⁷ For indeed he was sick, coming near to death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but also on me, so that I would not have grief upon grief. ²⁸ Therefore I am sending him with special urgency, in order that when* you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious. ²⁹ Therefore welcome him in the Lord with all joy, and consider such people highly honored, ³⁰ because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that _⌊he might make up for your inability to serve me_⌋*.

³⁰ You must listen to the plea of your servant and your people Israel which they pray toward this place; and you must hear from the place where you live, from heaven you must hear and you must forgive.

¹⁵ And call me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."

¹⁵ He will call upon me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him.

⁶ But whenever you pray, enter into your inner room and shut your door and* pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

²² And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. ²³ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

⁹ These are the generations* of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

¹ When* Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I am El-Shaddai;* walk before me and be blameless

¹⁸ And you shall do what is right and good in the eyes of Yahweh, so that _⌊it shall go well_⌋* for you and so that you may go and you may take possession of the good land that Yahweh swore for your ancestors,*

²¹ Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; now that the child has died, you get up and eat food!" ²² He said, "When the child was still alive, I fasted and I wept because I thought, 'Who knows? Yahweh may have mercy on me that the child will live.'

⁴ so that Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed of their way, to walk before me in faithfulness, with all their heart and with all their soul, no man of yours will be cut off from the throne of Israel.'"

¹⁴ But the high places he did not remove. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was completely with Yahweh all of his days.

⁵ He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah. ⁶ He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.

⁹ And the people rejoiced over their freewill offering, for with a whole heart they had willingly offered to Yahweh, and King David also rejoiced with great joy.

¹⁹ Grant to Solomon my son a heart of peace to keep your commands, your statutes, and your regulations to do everything, and to build the citadel for which I have provided."

⁹ For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose heart is fully devoted to him. You have been foolish in this, for from now on you will have wars."

² And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not with a fully-devoted heart.

²⁰ And Hezekiah did according to this throughout all Judah. And he did what is good and what is right and what is faithful before Yahweh his God. ²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God or with respect to the law and the commandment to seek his God, he did with all his heart, and he prospered.

¹ While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered to him. And the people wept bitterly.

⁴ When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

¹⁹ Remember me for good, my God, all that I have done for this people.

¹⁴ Remember me, my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my loyal acts which I have done in the house of my God and in his service.

²² And then I told two Levites that they must purify themselves and come to guard the gates in order to consecrate the day of the Sabbath. Remember this also, my God, and take pity on me according to the greatness of your loyal love.

³¹ a contribution of the wood offering at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

¹¹ My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside. ¹² From the commandment of his lips, indeed* I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.

⁸ Depart from me, all workers of evil, for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.

⁸ I have set Yahweh before me always. Because he is at my right hand I will not be shaken.

²⁰ Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me. ²¹ Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God, ²² because all his ordinances are before me, and his statutes I have not removed from me, ²³ and I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt. ²⁴ Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. ²⁵ To the loyal you show yourself loyal. To the blameless you show yourself blameless. ²⁶ To the pure you show yourself pure. but to the wicked you show yourself shrewd. ²⁷ For you deliver humble people, but haughty eyes you humiliate.

¹ For the music director. A psalm of David.*
May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of Jacob's God protect* you. ² May he send you help* from the sanctuary, and from Zion may he sustain you. ³ May he remember all your offerings, and your burnt offering may he _⌊regard favorably_⌋.*

³ Because your loyal love is before my eyes, and I walk about in your faithfulness.

² Happy is a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit.

² I will give attention to the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will walk in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house.

⁹ Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears*

⁸⁰ May my heart be blameless in your statutes, so that I may not be ashamed.

⁴ He struggled with the angel and prevailed; he pleaded for his mercy. He met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him.*

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, "Look! _⌊A true Israelite_⌋* in whom is no deceit!"

¹² For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness* and purity of motive from God, not* in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

⁷ who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence.

¹⁰ For God is not unjust, so as to forget your work and the love which you demonstrated for his name by* having served the saints, and continuing to serve them.

²¹ Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God, ²² and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what is pleasing _⌊in his sight_⌋*.

³ Nathan said to the king, "Go and do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you." ⁴ But it happened _⌊that night_⌋,* the word of Yahweh came* to Nathan, saying, ⁵ "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Are you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling?

²⁵ So then, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you promised to him, saying, 'For you, no man will be cut off from before me who will be sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their ways to walk before me just as you have walked before me.'

⁴ As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with _⌊integrity of heart_⌋* and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep my ordinances and my judgments, ⁵ then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'A man will not be cut off for you from upon the throne of Israel.'

¹² However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it away. ¹³ Yet all of the kingdom I will not tear away. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."

⁴ For the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by establishing his son after him and by causing Jerusalem to exist;

² He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

¹³ In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

²⁰ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'What you have prayed to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

² And Nathan said to David, "Whatever is in your heart, do, for God is with you." ³ And it happened that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, ⁴ "Go and say to David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You are not to build a house for me to live in,

³ In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of David his ancestor.* And in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherahs, the idols, and the images.

⁵ If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them.

⁵ They looked to him and were radiant, and their faces shall not be ashamed.* ⁶ This poor man called and Yahweh heard, and saved him from all his troubles.

¹² Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I am an alien* with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.*

⁸ You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; are they not in your book?

³ "I made a covenant with my chosen one; I swore an oath to David my servant: ⁴ 'I will establish your descendants forever, and I will build up your throne _⌊from generation to generation_⌋.'"* Selah

¹⁵ Costly _⌊in Yahweh's view_⌋* is the death of his faithful ones.

³ He is the one who heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.

¹³ Then he said, "Hear, house of David! Is it too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary? ¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself will give you* a sign. Look! the virgin* is with child and she is about to give birth to a son, and she shall call his name 'God with us.'

³² "I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob"?* He is not the God of the dead, but of the living!"

¹³ But the angel said to him,
"Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John.

²⁴ saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! It is necessary for you to stand before Caesar, and behold, God has graciously granted you all who are sailing with you.'

⁶ But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

¹⁴ And this is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. ¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

¹⁷ because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and will lead them to springs of living waters, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."*

²² So Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and from the all their enemies, and gave them rest all around.

⁶ Inhabitant of Zion, shout out and sing for joy, for the holy one of Israel is great in your midst."

⁴ For Yahweh said this to me:
"As which a lion growls and a young lion over its prey
when _⌊a full group_⌋* of shepherds is called against him,
it is not terrified by their voice, and to their noise it does not respond, so Yahweh of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill. ⁵ Like birds flying overhead, so Yahweh of hosts will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it; he will pass over and rescue it.

³⁵ 'And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.'"

¹⁷ But the Lord helped me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fulfilled and all the Gentiles might hear, and he rescued me from the lion's mouth.

¹³ My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and between the earth.

¹⁷ And he* said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, _⌊show me a sign_⌋* that you are speaking with me. ¹⁸ Please, do not depart from here until I come back to you and bring out my gift and set it out before you."* And he said, "I will stay until you return." ¹⁹ And Gideon went and prepared _⌊a young goat_⌋* and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour; he put meat in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and he brought them to him under the oak* and presented them. ²⁰ The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them on this rock; pour the broth over it." And he did so. ²¹ Then the angel of Yahweh reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and he touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of Yahweh went _⌊from his sight_⌋.* ²² And Gideon realized that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Oh, my lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face."

³⁷ I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and all of the ground is dry, I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said." ³⁸ And it was so. He arose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full drinking bowl of water. ³⁹ And Gideon said to God, "_⌊Do not let your anger burn_⌋* against me; let me speak once more. Please let me test once more with the fleece; let the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on the ground."

⁸ Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that Yahweh will heal me that I shall go up on the third day to the temple of Yahweh?" ⁹ Isaiah said, "This is the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or shall it return ten steps?" ¹⁰ Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backwards ten steps." ¹¹ Isaiah the prophet called to Yahweh, and he brought back the shadow on the steps where it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten steps. ¹² At that time, Berodak-Baladan the son of Baladan king of _⌊Babylon_⌋* sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill. ¹³ Hezekiah heard about them and showed them all of the house of his treasure, both the silver and the gold, the spices, the good olive oil, the room of his weapons, and all that could be found in his treasuries. There was nothing that he did not show them in his palace and in all of his kingdom. ¹⁴ Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "From a far land; they have come from Babylon." ¹⁵ Then he asked, "What did they see in your palace?" And Hezekiah said, "All that is in my palace they have seen; there is nothing that I did not show them in my treasuries." ¹⁶ Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh! ¹⁷ 'Look, days are coming when all that is in your palace will be carried off; even all that your ancestors* have stored up until this day, to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh. ¹⁸ 'Your sons who went out from you, whom you brought forth, will be taken, and they shall be eunuchs in the temple of the king of Babylon.'" ¹⁹ Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good," and he thought, "Is it not that peace and security shall be in my days?" ²⁰ Now the remainder of the acts of Hezekiah, all of his powerful deeds, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? ²¹ Then Hezekiah slept with his ancestors,* and Manasseh his son became king in his place.

¹¹ "Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make it deep as Sheol or make it high as above." ¹² But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put Yahweh to the test."

³⁰ And this shall be the sign for you: the eating of volunteer plants* this* year, and in the second year self-seeded plants,* and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

²² And Hezekiah said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the temple* of Yahweh?"

¹² Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh, on the day Yahweh gave the Amorites* over to the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* and he said in the sight of Israel,
"Sun in Gibeon, stand still, and moon, in the valley of Aijalon." ¹³ And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies.
Is it not written in the scroll of Jashar? The sun stood still in the middle of the heaven and was not in haste to set for about a full day. ¹⁴ There has not been a day like this before it or after, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.

³¹ And thus in the matter of the envoys of the commanders of Babylon who had been sent to him to seek the sign that had happened in the land, God forsook him, to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

¹ And when* the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test him,* they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

¹ Then Moses and the _⌊Israelites_⌋* sang this song to Yahweh, _⌊and they said_⌋,*
"Let me sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea. ² Yah* is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation;* this is my God, and I will praise him—the God of my father—and I will exalt him. ³ Yahweh is a man of war; Yahweh is his name. ⁴ The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he cast into the sea, and his choice adjutants were sunk in the _⌊Red Sea_⌋.* ⁵ The deep waters covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. ⁶ Yahweh, your right hand is glorious in power; Yahweh, your right hand destroyed the enemy. ⁷ And in the greatness of your majesty you overthrew those standing up to you; you released your fierce anger, and it consumed them like stubble. ⁸ And by the breath of your nostrils waters were piled up; waves stood like a heap; deep waters in the middle of the sea congealed. ⁹ The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide plunder, my desire will be full of them, I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.' ¹⁰ You blew with your breath; the sea covered them; they dropped like lead in the mighty waters. ¹¹ Who is like you among the gods, Yahweh? Who is like you—glorious in holiness, awesome in praiseworthy actions, doing wonders?* ¹² You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them. ¹³ In your loyal love you led the people whom you redeemed; in your strength you guided them to the abode of your holiness.* ¹⁴ Peoples heard; they trembled; anguish seized the inhabitants of Philistia. ¹⁵ Then the chiefs of Edom were horrified; great distress seized the leaders of Moab; all of the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. ¹⁶ Terror and dread fell on them; at the greatness of your arm they became silent like the stone, until your people passed by, Yahweh, until the people whom you bought passed by. ¹⁷ You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance, a place you made for yourself to inhabit, Yahweh, a sanctuary, Lord, that your hands established. ¹⁸ Yahweh will reign as king forever and ever." ¹⁹ When the horses* of Pharaoh came into the sea with his chariots* and with his charioteers, Yahweh brought back upon them the waters of the sea, and the _⌊Israelites_⌋* traveled on dry ground through the middle of the sea. ²⁰ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took her* tambourine in her hand, and all of the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. ²¹ And Miriam answered,* "Sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea."

³⁹ See, now, that I, even I am he, and there is not a god besides me; I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal; there is not one who delivers from my hand!

¹ And Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day: ² "When long hair hangs loosely in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless Yahweh! ³ Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel. ⁴ Yahweh, when you went down from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down water. ⁵ The mountains trembled* before Yahweh, this Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel. ⁶ "In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the caravans had ceased, _⌊the travelers_⌋,* _⌊they kept to the byways_⌋.* ⁷ The warriors* ceased; they failed to appear in Israel, until I,* Deborah, arose; I* arose as a mother in Israel. ⁸ God chose new leaders,* then war was at the gates; a small shield or a spear was not seen among forty thousand in Israel. ⁹ My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel, those offering themselves willingly among the people; bless Yahweh! ¹⁰ The riders of white female donkeys, those sitting on saddle blankets, and those going on the way, talk about it! ¹¹ At the sound of those dividing* the sheep among the watering places, there they will recount the righteous deeds of Yahweh, the righteous deeds for his warriors* in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates. ¹² "Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Take captive your captives, O son of Abinoam. ¹³ Then the remnant went down to the nobles; the people of Yahweh went down for him* against the mighty. ¹⁴ From Ephraim is their root into Amalek, after you, Benjamin, with your family; from Makir the commanders went down, and from Zebulun those carrying the scepter of the military commander. ¹⁵ And the chiefs* in Issachar were with Deborah; and Issachar likewise was with Barak; into the valley _⌊he was sent to get him from behind_⌋.* Among the clans of Reuben were great _⌊decisions of the heart_⌋.* ¹⁶ Why do you sit among the sheepfolds, to hear the calling sounds of the herds? For the clans of Reuben, there were great searchings of the heart. ¹⁷ Gilead has remained* beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan dwell as a foreigner with ships? Asher sat at the coast of the waters, and by his coves he has been settling down. ¹⁸ Zebulun is a people who scorned death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field. ¹⁹ "The kings came, they fought; then the kings of Canaan fought; at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they got no plunder in silver. ²⁰ The stars fought from heaven; from their courses they fought against Sisera. ²¹ The wadi* torrent of Kishon swept them away, the raging wadi torrent, the wadi torrent of Kishon. March on, my soul, with strength! ²² "Then the hooves of the horse beat loudly, because of galloping, galloping of his stallions. ²³ 'Curse Meroz,' says the angel of Yahweh; 'curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.' ²⁴ "Most blessed of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; most blessed is she of women among tent dwellers. ²⁵ He asked for water, and she gave milk; in a drinking bowl for nobles, she brought curds. ²⁶ She reached out her hand to the peg, and her right hand for the workman's hammer; and she struck Sisera, crushed his head, and she shattered and pierced his temple. ²⁷ Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay. Between her feet he sank down, he fell; Where he sank down, there he fell—_⌊dead_⌋.* ²⁸ "Through the window she looked down; the mother of Sisera cried out through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot delayed in coming? Why do the hoof beats* of his chariot tarry?' ²⁹ The wisest of her ladies answer her; she also answers the question herself: ³⁰ 'Are they not finding and dividing the plunder? _⌊A bedmate or two bedmates for every man_⌋;* colorful garments for Sisera, plunder of colorful garments,* beautifully finished colorful garments, on the neck of the plunderer?' ³¹ So may all your enemies perish, O Yahweh, but those who love him are like the rising sun at its brightest."
And the land had rest for forty years.

¹ Then Hannah prayed and said,
"My heart exults in Yahweh, my strength is exalted in Yahweh; _⌊I grin_⌋* over my enemies, for I rejoice over your salvation. ² There is no one holy like Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, and there is no rock like our God. ³ Do not increase speaking _⌊very proud_⌋* words! Let no arrogance go forth from your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge whose deeds are not weighed.* ⁴ The bows of mighty warriors are shattered, but those who stumble gird themselves with strength. ⁵ Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but she who has many sons withers away. ⁶ Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down to Sheol* and raises up. ⁷ Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts. ⁸ He raises up the poor from the dust. From the ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them. ⁹ He will guard the feet of his faithful* ones, but the wicked will be destroyed* in the darkness, because a man will not prevail by his might. ¹⁰ Yahweh will shatter* his adversaries;* he will thunder against them in the heavens. Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and will exalt the might of his anointed one.

³⁰ Then King Hezekiah and the princes commanded the Levites to praise Yahweh with the words of David and Asaph the seer. So they offered praise with joy, and they bowed down and worshiped.

¹⁸ for he himself* wounds, but* he binds up; he strikes, but* his hands heal.

¹ For the music director. Of David, the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song _⌊when_⌋* Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.*
And he said: "I love you, O Yahweh, my strength."

¹¹ You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy ¹² so that _⌊I_⌋* may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

¹⁷ Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted. ¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all food, and they approached the gates of death. ¹⁹ Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble. He saved them from their distresses. ²⁰ He sent his word and healed them, and he delivered them from their pits.* ²¹ Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, ²² and let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his works with rejoicing.

¹ I love him, because Yahweh has heard _⌊the voice of my supplications_⌋.* ² Because he has inclined his ear to me, I will call _⌊all my days_⌋.* ³ The ropes of death encircled me, and the distresses of Sheol found me. I found trouble and grief. ⁴ Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "O Yahweh, please save my life!"

¹⁸ Yah has disciplined me severely, but he did not consign* me to death. ¹⁹ Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to Yah.*

¹ And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me. ² Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me." ³ And you will draw water from the wells of salvation in joy. ⁴ And you will say on that day,
"Give thanks to Yahweh; call on his name. Make his deeds known among the peoples; bring to remembrance that his name is exalted. ⁵ Sing praises to Yahweh, for he has done a glorious thing; this is known in all the earth. ⁶ Inhabitant of Zion, shout out and sing for joy, for the holy one of Israel is great in your midst."

¹ Come, let us return to Yahweh; because it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us down and will bind us up. ² He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live in his presence.*

¹ And Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish ² and said,
"I called _⌊from my distress_⌋* to Yahweh, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol* I cried for help— you heard my voice. ³ And you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the sea currents surrounded me; all your breakers and your surging waves passed over me. ⁴ And I said, 'I am banished* from your sight; how* _⌊will I continue to look_⌋* _⌊on your holy temple_⌋?'* ⁵ The waters encompassed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. ⁶ I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld—its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. ⁷ When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, _⌊to your holy temple_⌋.* ⁸ Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love.* ⁹ But I, with a voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you; I will fulfill what I have vowed. Deliverance* belongs to Yahweh!"

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that _⌊I should hold out_⌋?*

⁷ Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will not return to see good.

¹¹ "My days are past; my plans are broken down— even the desires of my heart. ¹² They make night into day, saying, 'Light is _⌊near to darkness_⌋.'* ¹³ If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness, ¹⁴ if I call to the pit, 'You are my father,' to the maggot, 'You are my mother or* my sister,' ¹⁵ where* then is my hope? And _⌊who will see my hope_⌋?* ¹⁶ Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"

²⁴ I say, "My God, do not carry me off from my life in the middle of my days." Your years continue throughout all generations.

¹⁸ Their soul abhorred all food, and they approached the gates of death.

¹ In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Order your house, for you are about to die, and you shall not recover.'"

⁹ But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

¹⁴ _⌊How much less_⌋* when you say that you do not see him, that the case is _⌊before him_⌋,* and you are waiting for him! ¹⁵ But* now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all,

⁴ Turn, O Yahweh; deliver my life.* Save me for the sake of your steadfast love.* ⁵ For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you?

¹³ Surely* I believe that I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

²² As for me, I said in my alarm, "I am cut off from before your eyes." However you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you for help.

⁸ For you have rescued me* from death, my eyes* from tears, my feet from stumbling. ⁹ I will walk before Yahweh in the land* of the living.

⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. ⁶ What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun.

²⁰ _⌊Between morning and evening_⌋* they are destroyed; without anyone regarding it they perish forever.

⁹ that* God would decide that* he would crush me, that he would let loose his hand and _⌊kill me_⌋.*

³ So _⌊I had to inherit_⌋* months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. ⁴ When I lie down, I say,* 'When shall I rise?' But* the night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn. ⁵ My body is clothed with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then* it gives way again. ⁶ "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end _⌊without hope_⌋.* ⁷ Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will not return to see good.

²⁵ "And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good. ²⁶ They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on its prey.

² Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a* shadow, but* he does not last.

¹ "My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; the graveyard is for me.

¹⁴ And I have been plagued all day and rebuked _⌊every morning_⌋.*

⁴⁵ You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah ⁴⁶ How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire forever? ⁴⁷ Remember what my lifespan is. Remember for what vanity you have created all the children of humankind.

¹¹ My days are like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.

²³ He has broken my strength along the way; he has cut short my days. ²⁴ I say, "My God, do not carry me off from my life in the middle of my days." Your years continue throughout all generations.

²³ Even though princes sit and speak against me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged.*

²⁰ It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in _⌊forever_⌋;* and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there.

¹ For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

⁴ For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened _⌊for this reason, that_⌋* we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

¹² and like a robe you will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed; but you are the same, and your years will not run out."*

¹⁴ you who do not know _⌊what will happen tomorrow_⌋*, _⌊what your life will be like_⌋*. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

¹³ But I consider it right, for as long as I am in this habitation, to stir you up by a reminder, ¹⁴ because I* know that the removal of my habitation is imminent, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

²⁴ When he left, a lion found him on the road and killed him, and his dead body was thrown on the road with the donkey standing beside it, and the lion was standing by the dead body. ²⁵ As men were passing by and they saw the dead body thrown in the road and the lion standing beside the dead body, they came and told it in the city where the old prophet was living. ²⁶ When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard, he said, "It is the man of God who disobeyed the mouth of Yahweh, and Yahweh has given him to the lion. He tore him in pieces and killed him according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to him."

³⁶ He said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, look, as you now are going from me, a lion will kill you." When he went from beside him, the lion found him and killed him.

¹⁶ And if my head grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; _⌊and you repeat your exploits against me_⌋.* ¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; _⌊relief forces_⌋* are against me.

¹² "I was at ease, then* he broke me in two, and he seized me by my neck; then* he shattered me and set me up as a target for him. ¹³ His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground. ¹⁴ He breached me _⌊breach upon breach_⌋;* he rushes at me like a warrior.

¹⁰ Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish.

²² Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there will be none to deliver.

⁸ Make me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.

²⁴ The king then commanded, and these men were brought _⌊who had accused Daniel_⌋,* and they threw them and their children and their wives into _⌊the lion pit_⌋,* and they had not reached the floor of the pit _⌊before_⌋* the lions had overpowered them and they had crushed all of their bones.

¹⁴ Because I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a fierce strong lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and I will go; I will carry off, and there is no one who delivers.

³⁰ Because of this, many are weak and sick among you, and quite a few _⌊have died_⌋*. ³¹ But if we were evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged. ³² But if we* are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.

³ Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is he who will give security for my hand?*

²⁹ I am a companion for the jackals and a companion for _⌊ostriches_⌋.*

³ I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.

⁴ My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat* my bread. ⁵ Because of the sound of my groaning my bones* cling to my skin.* ⁶ I am like an owl* of the wilderness; I am like a little owl of the ruins. ⁷ I lie awake and I am like a lone bird on a roof.

⁸² My eyes long for* your word,* saying, "When will you comfort me?"

¹²² Pledge good for your servant; do not let the arrogant oppress me. ¹²³ My eyes long for* your salvation, and your righteous word.*

¹ A song of ascents.*
I lift up my eyes to you, the one enthroned* in the heavens. ² Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,* as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to Yahweh our God, until he is gracious to us. ³ Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt. ⁴ For long enough our soul has had its fill of the derision of the self-confident, the contempt of the arrogant.

⁷ Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like those descending to the pit.

¹¹ We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but* there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

¹⁷ Still our eyes failed, looking for our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save.

¹⁶ And if their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt.

⁷ _⌊Her goddess is taken out and taken into exile_⌋;* her maidservants moan like doves; they beat on their breasts.

⁸ Please, my Lord! What can I say after _⌊Israel has fled from its enemies_⌋?*

¹⁰ She was _⌊deeply troubled_⌋,* so she prayed to Yahweh and wept bitterly.

²⁷ When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

²⁷ So she came to the man of God at the mountain, and she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is bitter, and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me."

¹⁰ "And now our God what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,

¹¹ "Even* I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's* bitterness.

¹ "My inner self* loathes my life; _⌊I want to give vent to my complaint_⌋;* I want to speak out of the bitterness of my inner self.*

²⁵ Yet* another dies with a bitter inner self* and has not tasted prosperity.

⁹ I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done it. ¹⁰ Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish.

²⁷ "Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? But for this reason I have come to this hour!

³ And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and then he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestors* know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all that goes out* of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall live.

¹⁹ "And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even* with the strife of his bones continually, ²⁰ _⌊so that_⌋* his life loathes bread, and his inner self* loathes _⌊appetizing food_⌋.* ²¹ His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, which are invisible, are bared. ²² And _⌊he_⌋* draws near to the pit and his life to the killers. ²³ "If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand,* to declare to a human being his uprightness ²⁴ _⌊so that_⌋* he is gracious to him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into the pit; I have found a ransom.' ²⁵ His flesh is renewed with his youth; he returns to the days of his youthful strength. ²⁶ He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness. ²⁷ "He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted what is right, and it was not paid back to me. ²⁸ He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so* _⌊I will enjoy the light_⌋.'*

²⁰ You who have caused me* to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me.* And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.

²⁵ My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to your word.

⁵ You meet with the one who rejoices, one who does righteousness. In your ways they remember you. Look! You were angry and we sinned against them in ancient times and we were saved.

⁴ But he answered and* said, "It is written, 'Man will not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God."*

³² But if we* are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world.

¹⁷ For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory _⌊beyond all measure and proportion_⌋*,

¹⁰ For they disciplined us for a few days according to what seemed appropriate to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we can have a share in his holiness. ¹¹ Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it.

²⁵ because the dread that I _⌊feel_⌋* has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me. ²⁶ I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus* turmoil has come."

¹⁸ "And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply my days.

² In arrogance the wicked persecutes* the poor. Let them be caught in the schemes that they devised,

³ O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol. You preserved me alive from among those going down * to the pit.

⁶ But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, "I shall not be moved ever." ⁷ O Yahweh, by your favor you caused my strong mountain to stand. You hid your face. I was bewildered.

² And so he brought me up from the roaring pit,* from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.

² You took away the guilt* of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah

¹³ because your loyal love is great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol* below.

⁴ I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man* without strength,* ⁵ set free* among the dead, like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand. ⁶ You have set me in the pit below, in dark places, in the depths.

²⁵ I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins.

³⁴ And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, _⌊saying_⌋,* 'Know Yahweh,' for all of them will know me, from their _⌊smallest_⌋* and up to their _⌊greatest_⌋,"* _⌊declares_⌋* Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember."

⁶ I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld—its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love. ¹⁹ _⌊He will again have compassion_⌋* on us; he will trample our iniquities. And you will hurl all their sins in the depths of the sea.

³³ They went down alive to Sheol, they and all that belonged to them, and the land covered over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

⁵ For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you?

⁹ "What gain is there in my _⌊death_⌋,* in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

¹⁰ Do you work wonders* for the dead? Or do the departed spirits* rise up to praise you? Selah ¹¹ Is your loyal love told in the grave, or your faithfulness in the underworld?*

¹⁷ The dead do not praise Yah,* nor any descending into silence. ¹⁸ It is we, we will bless Yah* from now until forever. Praise Yah!*

³² By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death.

¹² But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!"

⁴⁶ And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

²⁶ And in addition to all these things, a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able to do so,* nor can they cross over from there to us.' ²⁷ So he said, 'Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father's house, ²⁸ for I have five brothers, so that he could warn them, in order that they also should not come to this place of torment!' ²⁹ But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they must listen to them.' ³⁰ And he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent!' ³¹ But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.'"

¹⁹ For I have chosen* him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him."

²⁶ _⌊And_⌋* when your children say to you, 'What is this _⌊religious custom_⌋* for you?'* ²⁷ you will say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the _⌊Israelites_⌋* in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.'" And the people knelt down and they worshiped.

¹⁴ And when your son asks you _⌊in the future_⌋,* saying, 'What is this?' you will say to him, 'With strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from a house of slaves. ¹⁵ And when Pharaoh was stubborn to release us, Yahweh killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from firstborn human to firstborn domestic animal. Therefore I am sacrificing to Yahweh every first offspring of a womb, the males, and every firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

⁹ "However, _⌊take care_⌋* for yourself and watch your inner self* closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to _⌊your grandchildren_⌋.*

⁷ And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at the time of your living in your house and at the time of your going on the road and at the time of your lying down and at the time of your rising up.

¹⁹ And you shall teach them to your children* by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up.

²¹ And he said to the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* "When your children ask in the future _⌊their parents_⌋,* '_⌊What is the meaning of these stones_⌋?'* ²² you will let your children know by saying, 'Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.'

³ that we have heard and known, and our ancestors* have told us. ⁴ We will not hide them from their children,* telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done. ⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law* in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors* to teach to their children, ⁶ so that the next generation might know— children yet to be born— that they might rise up and tell their children,

¹⁷ I will not die but live, and tell of the works of Yah.*

¹⁷⁵ Let my soul* live that it may praise you, and let your ordinances help me.

⁴ One generation will laud your works to another, and will declare your mighty deeds.

² I will praise Yahweh while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I am still alive.

³ Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation.

⁴ It is necessary for us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!

¹³ Be gracious to me, O Yahweh. See my suffering from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death, ¹⁴ so that I may tell of all your praises. In the gates of the daughter of Zion let me rejoice in your salvation.

⁵ Because he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock. ⁶ And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

² Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre; with a harp of ten strings play to him.

¹⁵ O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will proclaim your praise.

¹³ I will come into your house* with burnt offerings. I will pay to you my vows ¹⁴ that my lips uttered, and my mouth spoke in my distress. ¹⁵ Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you, with the smoke of rams. I will do* cattle with rams. Selah

²⁵ Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last, between them young women playing tambourines.

² Because he has inclined his ear to me, I will call _⌊all my days_⌋.*

¹⁷ I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and proclaim the name of Yahweh. ¹⁸ I will pay my vows made to Yahweh in the presence of all his people, ¹⁹ in the courts of the house* of Yahweh, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise Yah!*

² Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.

⁴ Praise him with tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flute.

¹⁹ Yahweh, my Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer; he causes me to walk on my high places. To the choirmaster with stringed instruments.

⁷ Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs," so they took and put it on the skin sores, and he lived. ⁸ Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that Yahweh will heal me that I shall go up on the third day to the temple of Yahweh?"

³³ And he took him away from the crowd by himself and* put his fingers into his ears, and after* spitting, he touched his tongue.

⁶ When he* had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.

⁸ Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that Yahweh will heal me that I shall go up on the third day to the temple of Yahweh?"

¹ For the music director. A maskil of the sons of Korah.*
As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. ² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?*

¹ For the music director; on the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm.*
How lovely are your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts! ² My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

¹⁰ Because better is a day in your courtyards than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be at the threshold of the house* of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. ¹¹ Because Yahweh God is a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly. ¹² O Yahweh of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts you.

¹ A song of ascents. Of David.*
I rejoiced in those who said to me, "Let us go to the house* of Yahweh."

¹⁴ After these things Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you."