Man knoweth not the price thereof;\par\tab Neither is it found in the land of the living.
Psalm 27:13 - American Standard Version 2015 {\i I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah\par\tab In the land of the living. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I had fainted, Unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living! American Standard Version (1901) I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living. Common English Bible But I have sure faith that I will experience the LORD’s goodness in the land of the living! |
Man knoweth not the price thereof;\par\tab Neither is it found in the land of the living.
To bring back his soul from the pit,\par\tab That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
I cried unto thee, O Jehovah;\par\tab I said, Thou art my refuge,\par\tab My portion in the land of the living.
Attend unto my cry;\par\tab For I am brought very low:\par\tab Deliver me from my persecutors;\par\tab For they are stronger than I.
Oh how great is thy goodness,\par\tab Which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee,\par\tab Which thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in thee,\par\tab Before the sons of men!
Why art thou cast down, O my soul?\par\tab And {\i why} art thou disquieted within me?\par\tab Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him\par\tab {\i For} the help of his countenance.\par
God will likewise destroy thee for ever;\par\tab He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent,\par\tab And root thee out of the land of the living. {\i Selah
For thou hast delivered my soul from death:\par\tab {\i Hast thou} not {\i delivered} my feet from falling,\par\tab That I may walk before God\par\tab In the light of the living?\par
I said, I shall not see Jehovah, {\i even} Jehovah in the land of the living:\par\tab I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day:\par\tab The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, {\i saying}, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:
Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, {\i it is} the gift of God;