Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
before I go and do not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
It is as high as heaven; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?
He uncovers deep things out of darkness and brings the shadow of death to light.
The underworld is naked before Him, and destruction has no covering.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
There were those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and irons,
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds apart.
They abhorred all manner of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.
The cords of death encompassed me, and the pangs of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Be gracious to me, O Lord; consider my trouble from those who hate me, O You who lifts me up from the gates of death,
The One who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into dawn and darkens the day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth— the Lord is His name,
The people who sat in darkness saw great light. And on those who sat in the land of the shadow of death, light has dawned.”
I am He who lives, though I was dead. Behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.