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.

³ And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.

² Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?

²³ For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

¹⁹ Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

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.

¹¹ By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

²² Till he came, who was very old, and the decision was made and the authority was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints took the kingdom.

³⁰ So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁴ And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years.

⁵ The rest of the dead did not come to life again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first coming back from the dead.

²⁶ He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations,

²⁷ And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:

³⁶ As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.

³ And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

¹⁸ But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever.

³ But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.

¹³ If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

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

¹³ Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

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

¹⁷ The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

⁵ For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

¹¹ You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

³ He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

¹⁰ I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

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.

²¹ If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?