And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.
And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.
If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.
When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.
But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.
So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.
For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.
The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.
So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.
But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.
Be in fear before him, all the earth: the world is ordered so that it may not be moved.
Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;
If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.
The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
The underworld is uncovered before him, and destruction has no veil.
To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.
And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.
Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?
And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.
The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.
Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
<A Psalm. Of David.> The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.
<Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.
What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?
Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.
Let the earth be full of the fear of the Lord; let all the people of the world be in holy fear of him.
<Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.> Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.
So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.
Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.
You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.
For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.
What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.
The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.
Say among the nations, The Lord is King; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved; he will be an upright judge of the peoples.
His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.
Let the sea be thundering, with all its waters; the world, and all who are living in it;
Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.
He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.
The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.
But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.
Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.
And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.
Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
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