There the wrong cease raging, and there the weary are at rest,
If only You would hide me in the grave, conceal me until Your wrath turns away. Set me a time, and remember me!
Would it sink down into the grave? Would we together go down into the dust?”
or as a hidden untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?
the prisoners rest together, they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Therefore I commended the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy have now perished; and they no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.
“And do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the being. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both being and body in Gehenna.
“But I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that are unable to do any more.
Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
So there remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of Elohim.
(for day after day that righteous man, dwelling among them, tortured his righteous being by seeing and hearing their lawless works),
And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Master from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “in order that they rest from their labours, and their works follow with them.”
“Further, יהוה also gives Yisra’ĕ