before I go to where I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither [can anyone] see the life of mortals.

For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.

Also to them is the event of the sons of men, and the event of the brute; one event befalls them. As is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; and there is one breath to all; and what has the man more than the brute? Nothing; for all is vanity.

And who has seen the spirit of the sons of men, whether it goes upward? And the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?

and they shall look up, and fears [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered, because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market.

For I know that He is eternal who is about to deliver me,

which I am conscious of in myself, which my eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.

They shall perish, but You remain; and [they all] shall grow old like a garment; and as a vesture shall You fold them, and they shall be changed.

Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath; for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner; but My righteousness shall not fail.

For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.

For as the new heaven and the new earth, which I make, remain before Me, says the Lord, so shall your seed and your name continue.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away.

whom it is necessary [for] heaven to receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but on account of Him who subjected it in hope;

but the present heavens and earth, having been stored up by His word, are being reserved for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens shall pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements, burning with heat, shall be dissolved, both the earth and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens, being set of fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements, burning with heat, shall melt?

Then I saw a great white throne and He who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled. And no place was found for them.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And there was no more sea.

Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

Why have You not forgotten my iniquity, and purged my sin? But now I shall depart to the earth, and in the morning I am no more.

The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice; for the dew from You is healing to them; but the land of the ungodly shall perish.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

These things He said, and after this He said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awaken him."

However, Jesus spoke about his death, but they thought that He was speaking about resting in sleep.

Therefore He says: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose [again], thus also God will bring with Him those who die in Jesus.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall by no means precede those who are dead.