When I did not confess my sins, I was worn out from crying all day long.

Day and night you punished me, LORD; my strength was completely drained, as moisture is dried up by the summer heat.

Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.

I am worn out from calling for help, and my throat is aching. I have strained my eyes, looking for your help.

When I was hungry, they gave me poison; when I was thirsty, they offered me vinegar.

even the most important men kept silent.

They let their babies die of hunger and thirst; children are begging for food that no one will give them.

Jesus knew that by now everything had been completed; and in order to make the scripture come true, he said, "I am thirsty."

"What will you gain from my death? What profit from my going to the grave? Are dead people able to praise you? Can they proclaim your unfailing goodness?

When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.

You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."

Abraham spoke again: "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. I am only a man and have no right to say anything.

Can't you ever forgive my sin? Can't you pardon the wrong I do? Soon I will be in my grave, and I'll be gone when you look for me.

Remember that you made me from clay; are you going to crush me back to dust?

then everyone living would die and turn into dust again.

And so I will give him a place of honor, a place among the great and powerful. He willingly gave his life and shared the fate of evil men. He took the place of many sinners and prayed that they might be forgiven."

Many of those who have already died will live again: some will enjoy eternal life, and some will suffer eternal disgrace.

Jesus again gave a loud cry and breathed his last.

I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures;