Lord, now let you your servant depart in peace, according to your word:
And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are yet alive.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.
And it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from now on: Yes, said the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?