valley of death

⁴For, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they have given me consolation.

¹The hand of the Lord was set upon me, and he led me away in the Spirit of the Lord, and he released me in the midst of a plain which was full of bones. ²And he led me around, through them, on every side. Now they were very many upon the face of the plain, and they were exceedingly dry. ³And he said to me, “Son of man, do you think that these bones will live?” And I said, “O Lord God, you know.” ⁴And he said to me, “Prophesy about these bones. And you shall say to them: Dry bones, listen to the word of the Lord! ⁵Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will send spirit into you, and you shall live. ⁶And I will set sinews upon you, and I will cause flesh to grow over you, and I will extend skin over you. And I will give you spirit, and you shall live. And you shall know that I am the Lord.”

⁶And they have not said: ‘Where is the Lord, who caused us to ascend from the land of Egypt; who led us through the desert, through an uninhabited and impassable land, through a land of drought and of the image of death, through a land in which no one walked and in which no man lived?’

⁴Every valley will be exalted, and every mountain and hill will be brought low. And the crooked will be straightened, and the uneven will become level ways.

¹⁹And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.

²¹before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death, ²²a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.

³²For this reason, behold, the days will arrive, says the Lord, when it will no longer be called Topheth, nor the Valley of the son of Hinnom, but instead the Valley of Slaughter. Yet they will bury in Topheth, because there will be no other place.

¹A Psalm of David. The Lord directs me, and nothing will be lacking to me. ²He has settled me here, in a place of pasture. He has led me out to the water of refreshment. ³He has converted my soul. He has led me away on the paths of justice, for the sake of his name. ⁴For, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they have given me consolation. ⁵You have prepared a table in my sight, opposite those who trouble me. You have anointed my head with oil, and my cup, which inebriates me, how brilliant it is! ⁶And your mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and so may I dwell in the house of the Lord for length of days.

¹⁰those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, shackled by extreme poverty and by iron. ¹¹For they exasperated the eloquence of God, and they irritated the deliberation of the Most High. ¹²And their heart was brought low with hardships. They were weakened, and there was no one to help them. ¹³And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he freed them from their distress. ¹⁴And he led them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and he broke apart their chains.

⁶Because of this, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when this place will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.

⁷from the valley of tears, from the place which he has determined.

⁸The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.

¹⁴Nations, nations in the valley of being cut to pieces: for the day of the Lord fittingly takes place in the valley of being cut to pieces.

¹¹And I saw a great white throne, and One sitting upon it, from whose sight earth and heaven fled, and no place was found for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in view of the throne. And books were opened. And another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged by those things that had been written in the books, according to their works. ¹³And the sea gave up the dead who were in it. And death and Hell gave up their dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. ¹⁴And Hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵And whoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the pool of fire.

²I will gather all the Gentiles, and will lead them into the valley of Jehoshaphat. And there I will dispute with them over my people, and over Israel, my inheritance, for they have scattered them among the nations and have divided my land.

¹⁶A people who were sitting in darkness have seen a great light. And unto those sitting in the region of the shadow of death, a light has risen.”