And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, {even} her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, {and} the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if {we had} no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; {we are} in desolate places as dead {men}.

So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not {let them} pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I {am} the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.

They, and all that {appertained} to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

[{A Psalm} of David.] Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, {if} thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. {to me: Heb. from me}

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory {shall be} a defence. {upon all: or, above all} {defence: Heb. covering}

For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. {solitary: or, dark as the night} {in...: Heb. yesternight}

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars {was} about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. {bottoms: Heb. cuttings off} {corruption: or, the pit}

He hath set me in dark places, as {they that be} dead of old.

But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that {appertain} unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. {make...: Heb. create a creature}

And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, {and} thou heardest my voice. {by...: or, out of mine affliction} {hell: or, the grave}

{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Surely his salvation {is} nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. {terror: or, dismaying}

There {is} Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.

To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. {their trees...: or, stand upon themselves for their height}

Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, {even} her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man {that hath} no strength:

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;