²⁷ And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.

¹⁸ All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,

¹⁹ But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

²¹ The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword.

¹⁸ He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

¹¹ His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

¹³ For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

¹⁴ With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

¹⁵ Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

⁴ (For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places);

²⁴ For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

²⁰ The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.

¹⁷ No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

³² The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

⁹ For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight;

⁷ When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

¹⁴ 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.