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17 For in death the wicked cause no trouble,
    and the weary are at rest.

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17 There the wicked cease from turmoil,(A)
    and there the weary are at rest.(B)

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13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this down: Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they are blessed indeed, for they will rest from their hard work; for their good deeds follow them!”

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13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord(A) from now on.”

“Yes,” says the Spirit,(B) “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”

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11 So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.

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11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.(A)

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So there is a special rest[a] still waiting for the people of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:9 Or a Sabbath rest.

There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;

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57 Good people pass away;
    the godly often die before their time.
    But no one seems to care or wonder why.
No one seems to understand
    that God is protecting them from the evil to come.
For those who follow godly paths
    will rest in peace when they die.

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57 The righteous perish,(A)
    and no one takes it to heart;(B)
the devout are taken away,
    and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
    to be spared from evil.(C)
Those who walk uprightly(D)
    enter into peace;
    they find rest(E) as they lie in death.

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16 No, my hope will go down with me to the grave.
    We will rest together in the dust!”

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16 Will it go down to the gates of death?(A)
    Will we descend together into the dust?”(B)

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13 “I wish you would hide me in the grave[a]
    and forget me there until your anger has passed.
    But mark your calendar to think of me again!

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Footnotes

  1. 14:13 Hebrew in Sheol.

13 “If only you would hide me in the grave(A)
    and conceal me till your anger has passed!(B)
If only you would set me a time
    and then remember(C) me!(D)

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In his justice he will pay back those who persecute you.

And God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven. He will come with his mighty angels,

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God is just:(A) He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you(B) and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven(C) in blazing fire(D) with his powerful angels.(E)

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“Dear friends, don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot do any more to you after that.

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“I tell you, my friends,(A) do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.

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28 “Don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 10:28 Greek Gehenna.

28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One(A) who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

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Fear and trembling overwhelm me,
    and I can’t stop shaking.
Oh, that I had wings like a dove;
    then I would fly away and rest!
I would fly far away
    to the quiet of the wilderness. Interlude
How quickly I would escape—
    far from this wild storm of hatred.

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Fear and trembling(A) have beset me;
    horror(B) has overwhelmed me.
I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest.
I would flee far away
    and stay in the desert;[a](C)
I would hurry to my place of shelter,(D)
    far from the tempest and storm.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:7 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and in the middle of verse 19.

Yes, Lot was a righteous man who was tormented in his soul by the wickedness he saw and heard day after day.

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(for that righteous man,(A) living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

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