1734 verses about Life

I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you will live. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”’”

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”’”

So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

You will know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, my people.

I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’”

They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince for ever.

He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east. Behold, waters ran out on the right side.

When the man went out eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through waters that were to the waist.

Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region, and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea; and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.

It will happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, will live. Then there will be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river comes.

It will happen, that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

The leaves of it were beautiful, and it had much fruit, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shade under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!

and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.

After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will flow out from Yahweh’s house, and will water the valley of Shittim.

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.

“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.

and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father, in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”

My child, be mindful of the Lord our God all your days, and don’t let your will be set to sin and to transgress his commandments: do righteousness all the days of your life, and don’t follow the ways of unrighteousness.

For what the Lord has given us to live is enough for us.”

and came out, and told them that he was alive.

Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfill their life in health with gladness and mercy.

Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life;

but those who sin are enemies to their own life.

For he scourges, and shows mercy. He leads down to the grave, and brings up again. There is no one that will escape his hand.

Declare his greatness, there. Extol him before all the living; because he is our Lord, and God is our Father forever.

He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight. After eight years, he received it again. He gave alms and he feared the Lord God more and more, and gave thanks to him.

Now he grew very old; and he called his son with the six sons of his son, and said to him, “My child, take your sons. Behold, I have grown old, and am ready to depart out of this life.

He died at Ecbatana of Media, being one hundred twenty seven years old.

For it is better for us to be made a plunder to them. For we will be servants, and our souls will live, and we will not see the death of our babies before our eyes, and our wives and our children fainting in death.

Her husband was Manasses, of her tribe and of her family. He died in the days of barley harvest.

She was of a goodly countenance, and exceeding beautiful to behold. Her husband Manasses had left her gold, silver, menservants, maidservants, cattle, and lands. She remained on those lands.

As Nebuchadnezzar king of all the earth lives, and as his power lives, who has sent you for the preservation of every living thing, not only do men serve him by you, but also the beasts of the field, the cattle, and the birds of the sky will live through your strength, in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and of all his house.

Judith said, “I will drink now, my lord, because my life is magnified in me this day more than all the days since I was born.”

Many desired her, and no man knew her all the days of her life, from the day that Manasses her husband died and was gathered to his people.

She increased in greatness exceedingly; and she grew old in her husband’s house, to one hundred five years, and let her maid go free. Then she died in Bethulia. They buried her in the cave of her husband Manasses.

And she answered and said, If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request.

For how shall I be able to look upon the affliction of my people, and how shall I be able to survive the destruction of my kindred?

Court not death in the error of your life; Neither draw upon yourselves destruction by the works of your hands:

Because God made not death; Neither delights he when the living perish:

For he created all things that they might have being: And the generative powers of the world are healthsome, And there is no poison of destruction in them: Nor has Hades royal dominion upon earth,

For righteousness is immortal:

For they said within themselves, reasoning not aright, Short and sorrowful is our life; And there is no healing when a man comes to his end, And none was ever known that gave release from Hades.

Because by mere chance were we born, And hereafter we will be as though we had never been: Because the breath in our nostrils is smoke, And while our heart beats reason is a spark,

And our name will be forgotten in time, And no man will remember our works; And our life will pass away as the traces of a cloud, And will be scattered as is a mist, When it is chased by the beams of the sun, And overcome by the heat thereof.

For our alloted time is the passing of a shadow, And our end retreats not; Because it is fast sealed, and none turns it back.

Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered:

He is grievous to us even to behold, Because his life is unlike other men’s, And his paths are of strange fashion.

Let us see if his words be true, And let us try what shall befall in the ending of his life.

Because God created man for incorruption, And made him an image of his own proper being;

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, And no torment will touch them.

In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died; And their departure was accounted to be their hurt,

Accursed is their begetting. Because happy is the barren that is undefiled, She who has not conceived in transgression; She will have fruit when God visiteth souls.

For if they live long, they will be held in no account, And at the last their old age will be without honor.

Better than this is childishness with virtue; For in the memory of virtue is immortality: Because it is recognized both before God and before men.

When it is present, men imitate it; And they long after it when it is departed: And throughout all time it marcheth crowned in triumph, Victorious in the strife for the prizes that are undefiled.

For even if these put forth boughs and flourish for a season, q1 Yet, standing unsure, they will be shaken by the wind, And by the violence of winds they will be rooted out.

But a righteous man, though he die before his time, will be at rest.

(For honorable old age is not that which stands in length of time, Nor is its measure given by number of years:

But understanding is gray hairs to men, And an unspotted life is ripe old age.)

Being made perfect in a little while, he fulfilled long years;

For his soul was pleasing to the Lord: Therefore hurried he out of the midst of wickedness.

But a righteous man that is dead will condemn the ungodly that are living, And youth that is quickly perfected the many years of an unrighteous man’s old age;

For the ungodly will see a wise man’s end, And will not understand what the Lord purposed concerning him, And for what he safely kept him:—

We fools accounted his life madness, And his end without honor:

Those things all passed away as a shadow, And as a message that runs by:

But the righteous live forever, And in the Lord is their reward, And the care for them with the Most High.

Therefore will they receive the crown of royal dignity And the diadem of beauty from the Lord’s hand; Because with his right hand will he cover them, And with his arm will he shield them.

And love of her is observance of her laws; And to give heed to her laws confirmeth incorruption;

And incorruption brings near to God;

I myself also am mortal, like to all, And am sprung from one born of the earth, the man first formed,

And in the womb of a mother was I moulded into flesh in the time of ten months, Being compacted in blood of the seed of man and pleasure that came with sleep.

And I also, when I was born, drew in the common air, And fell upon the kindred earth, Uttering, like all, for my first voice, the selfsame wail:

In swaddling clothes was I nursed, and with watchful cares.

For no king had any other first beginning;

But all men have one entrance into life, and a like departure.

And she, being one, has power to do all things; And remaining in herself, reneweth all things: And from generation to generation passing into holy souls She makes men friends of God and prophets.

For she is fairer than the sun, And above all the constellations of the stars: Being compared with light, she is found to be before it;

But if riches are a desired possession in life, What is richer than wisdom, which works all things?

And if a man loves righteousness, The fruits of wisdom’s labor are virtues, For she teaches soberness and understanding, righteousness and courage; And there is nothing in life for men more profitable than these.

When I considered these things in myself, And took thought in my heart how that in kinship to wisdom is immortality,