before I go and not return; to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

a land of darkness and gloom, as the shadow of death, without any order; where it shines as darkness.

For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

For that which happens to the sons of men also happens to beasts, even one thing happens to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast; for all is vanity.

Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

also they are afraid of the heights, and terrors along the way, and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper is a burden, and desire fails; because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets;

For I know that my Redeemer is alive, and He shall stand at the latter time upon the earth;

Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not a stranger. O how my reins have been exhausted within me!

They shall perish, but You will endure; yea, they shall all grow old like a garment; like clothing You will change them, and they shall be changed;

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall become old like a garment; and its inhabitants shall die in the same way. But My salvation shall be forever, and My righteousness shall not be broken.

For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the former shall not be remembered, nor come to mind.

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, says Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will by no means pass away.

whom Heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God has spoken through the mouth of all His holy prophets since the past ages.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but through Him who subjected it in hope;

But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same Word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

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

looking for and earnestly hastening unto the coming of the Day of God, through which the heavens will be dissolved, being set on fire, and the elements will melt with intense burning?

And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away. And there was found no place for them.

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

For now I would have lain down and been quiet, I would have slept; then I would have been at rest

Why then do You not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and You shall seek me diligently, but I will no longer be.

Your dead ones shall live, together with My dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of the light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

And many of those sleeping in the earth's dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting abhorrence.

These things He said, and after that He said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.

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

Therefore He says: Awake, you who sleep, stand forth out from among the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep 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 will by no means precede those who are asleep.