¹³ I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

⁵ I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.

¹⁶ For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

⁸ Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;

⁹ We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;

¹⁰ In our bodies there is ever the mark of the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our bodies.

¹¹ For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.

¹² So then, death is working in us, but life in you.

¹³ But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;

¹⁴ Because we are certain that he who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead, will do the same for us, and will give us a place in his glory with you.

²⁰ Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

¹³ Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

⁹ I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁰ I still had faith, though I said, I am in great trouble;

¹¹ Though I said in my fear, All men are false.

³ In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

¹⁹ O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

¹¹ I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

¹³ Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

⁸ Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

⁵ But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

⁵ Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

¹ For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:

¹⁹ The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

³⁰ Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.