When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
Isaiah 57:2 - Revised Standard Version he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He [in death] enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks straight and in his uprightness. American Standard Version (1901) He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness. Common English Bible They will find peace; those who walk in straight paths will find rest on their burial beds. Catholic Public Domain Version Let peace arrive. Let he who has walked in his righteousness find rest on his bed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let peace come: let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness. |
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless.
They buried him in the tomb which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier which had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great fire in his honor.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the man of peace.
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
The way of the righteous is level; thou dost make smooth the path of the righteous.
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, their graves round about her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit; they are placed among the slain.
But go your way till the end; and you shall rest, and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.’
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried;
“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word;
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
We are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord henceforth.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”