His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.
For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.
On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.
and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
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