I will ransom them from the hand of Sheol; I will redeem them from death. O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your ruin? Repentance is hidden from My eyes.
And I heard a voice out of Heaven saying to me, Write: Blessed are the dead ones, the ones dying in the Lord from now. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow with them.
And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy are You to receive the scroll, and to open its seals, because You were slaughtered, and by Your blood purchased us to God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,