Remember, O God, my life is only a breath; my happiness has already ended.

The end of my life is near. I can hardly breathe; there is nothing left for me but the grave.

My only hope is the world of the dead, where I will lie down to sleep in the dark.

Where is there any hope for me? Who sees any?

The LORD kills and restores to life; he sends people to the world of the dead and brings them back again.

you kept me from the grave. I was on my way to the depths below, but you restored my life.

So many troubles have fallen on me that I am close to death.

I am abandoned among the dead; I am like the slain lying in their graves, those you have forgotten completely, who are beyond your help.

I thought that in the prime of life I was going to the world of the dead, Never to live out my life.

Voices of terror will scream in their ears, and robbers attack when they think they are safe.

When the LORD goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the beams and the doorposts and will not let the Angel of Death enter your houses and kill you.

When the LORD's angel was about to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD changed his mind about punishing the people and said to the angel who was killing them, "Stop! That's enough!" The angel was by the threshing place of Araunah, a Jebusite.

as others do; I have obeyed your command and have not followed paths of violence.

At once the angel of the Lord struck Herod down, because he did not give honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.

We must not complain, as some of them did---and they were destroyed by the Angel of Death.

They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning "The Destroyer").