They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.
Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your crew in your midst have sunk with you.
“Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas. Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.
“Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit: ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.’ They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes. The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’ “Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.
Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.
“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
Of David. To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’
he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”
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