¹⁵ You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

³ Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?

²² Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.

²¹ Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

⁸ 'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether; Yet you destroy me.

⁴ He calls to the heavens above, To the earth, that he may judge his people:

⁵ "Gather my saints together to me, Those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

⁸ Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don't forsake the works of your own hands.

¹⁷ then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

¹⁹ Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

²⁸ Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.