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But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

It will happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As Yahweh lives;’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the middle of my people.

“Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that it will no more be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’

but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them.’ I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.