²⁴ I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations `are' Thine years.

¹² Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it.

¹³ Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

¹² And Thou, O Jehovah, to the age abidest, And Thy memorial to all generations.

²⁶ Lo, God `is' high, And we know not the number of His years, Yea, there `is' no searching.

⁷ And Jehovah to the age abideth, He is preparing for judgment His throne.

¹ A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation,

² Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou `art' God.

¹⁰ `I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

¹¹ I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

¹² My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

¹³ I have set `Him' till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

¹⁴ As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression `is' on me, be my surety.

¹⁵ -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ Lord, by these do `men' live, And by all in them `is' the life of my spirit, And Thou savest me, make me also to live,

¹⁷ Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

¹⁸ For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

¹⁹ The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

²⁰ Like myself to-day -- a father to sons Doth make known of Thy faithfulness, O Jehovah -- to save me: And my songs we sing all days of our lives In the house of Jehovah.'

²¹ And Isaiah saith, `Let them take a bunch of figs, and plaster over the ulcer, and he liveth.'

²² And Hezekiah saith, `What `is' the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'

⁴ John to the seven assemblies that `are' in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the Seven Spirits that are before His throne,

⁸ `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'