if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’ Therefore he says also in another psalm, “‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’ For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption, but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’ “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.
that he should live on forever and never see the pit.
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’
When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,
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