You made us as sheep [intended] for food; and You scattered us among the nations.

But You, O Lord, know me; You have tested my heart before You; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

Just as it is written: "For Your sake we are put to death the whole day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter."

For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister.

And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

But they lie down in the dust together, and corruption covers them.

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

[before] the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I shall part with the remainder of my years.

I said, I shall no more see the salvation of God in the land of the living; I shall no more see the salvation of Israel on the earth; I shall no more see man.

[Let them be] withered upon the earth, for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless.

Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapor of dew; but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.

He has subdued the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

until the Ancient of Days came, and He gave judgment to the saints of the Most High; and the time was fulfilled, and the saints possessed the kingdom.

And you shall trample the wicked; for they shall be ashes underneath your feet in the day which I appoint, says the Lord Almighty.

so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

And he who overcomes, and he who keeps My works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations--

'And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; they shall be smashed to pieces like clay vessels'--

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the word of God, and those who had not worshipped the Beast or his image, and they did not receive the mark on their forehead or on their hand. And they came to life and reigned with Christ [for] the thousand years.

But the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

For anger is in His wrath, but life in His favor; weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy comes in the morning.

Let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find Him ready as the morning, and He will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and You make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

For He blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.

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