Do people live forever? Don’t they all face death?
What person alive will not die? Who can escape the grave?Selah
because you will not leave me in the grave. You will not let your holy one rot.
Knowing this before it happened, David talked about the Christ rising from the dead. He said: ‘He was not left in the grave. His body did not rot.’
because you will not leave me in the grave. You will not let your Holy One rot.
Your ancestors are dead, and those prophets didn’t live forever.
No one can control the wind or stop his own death. No soldier is released in times of war, and evil does not set free those who do evil.
Riches will not help when it’s time to die, but right living will save you from death.
Riches gotten by doing wrong have no value, but right living will save you from death.
All the powerful people on earth will eat and worship. Everyone will bow down to him, all who will one day die.
God has made this promise come true for us, his children, by raising Jesus from the dead. We read about this also in Psalm 2: ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.’
