You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you turn and destroy me.
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will be with the Lord forever.
Therefore, let those suffering in accordance with God’s will entrust their lives to a faithful Creator, while continuing to do good.
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.