¹⁴ If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

¹⁰ For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

⁵³ For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

⁵⁴ But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.

⁴² So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:

³⁴ And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

³⁵ Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction.

³⁶ Now David, having done God's work for his generation, went to sleep, and was put with his fathers, and his body came to destruction:

³⁷ But he, who was lifted up by God, did not see destruction.

²⁷ For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.

²⁸ You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.

²⁹ My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.

³⁰ But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,

³¹ He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.

¹¹ 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.

⁹ So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

³⁰ My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

²⁰ The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

³² He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

³³ The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

²⁶ Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

²⁸ Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

²⁶ And ... without my flesh I will see God;