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

or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:

There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.

The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.

See how the just man has perished, and no one lays [it] to heart; and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers; for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.

His burial shall be in peace; he has been removed out of the way.

And I heard a voice out of heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now [on],' "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow with them."

For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

They shall bear you up on their hands, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

And the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil [one].

Therefore just as the tares are gathered and burned with fire, thus it will be at the end of this age.

and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Therefore since the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same things, in order that through death He might destroy the [one] having the power of death, that is, the devil,

And I say to you that many shall come from east and west, and recline [to eat] with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;

Now there was reclining on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, [the one] whom Jesus loved.

Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had reclined on His chest at the supper, and said, "Lord, who is the one who betrays You?"

But God said to him, ['You] fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?'

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

For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of His vengeance.

And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.

They that trust in their strength, and boast themselves in the multitude of their wealth-

or the price for the redemption of his soul, though he labor forever,

When he shall see wise men dying, the fool and the senseless one shall perish together; and they shall leave their wealth to strangers.

And man being in honor, understands not; he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is likened unto them.

Fear not when a man is enriched, and when the glory of his house is increased.

For his soul shall be blessed in his life; he shall give thanks to you when you do well to him.

Surely You have appointed [judgments] to them because of their crafty dealings; You have cast them down when they were lifted up.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image.

The ungodly shall be driven away in his wickedness, but he who is secure in his own holiness is just.

For what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul?

For the sun arose with burning heat and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and its beautiful appearance perished. So the rich man also shall fade away in his pursuits.

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, in order that having died to sins, we might live unto righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.

And [Jehu] went in and ate and drank, and said, Look after this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.

And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her but the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and [that] out of the holy place. And they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus. This also is vanity.

All the kings of the nations lie in honor, [every] man in his house.

And what have you to do here, that you have hewn yourself a tomb, and made yourself a tomb on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?