If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow, the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
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