For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your Holy One to rot in the grave.

因你必不将我的灵魂撇在阴间，也不叫你的圣者见朽坏。

因你必不将我的灵魂撇在阴间，也不让你的圣者见朽坏。

因你必不将我的灵魂撇在阴间，也不让你的圣者见朽坏。

因为你不会把我的灵魂撇在阴间，也不会让你的圣者身体朽坏。

因你必不把我的灵魂撇在阴间，也必不容你的圣者见朽坏。

因为你不会把我的灵魂撇弃在阴间，也不会让你的圣者经历腐朽。

因你必不將我的靈魂撇在陰間，也不叫你的聖者見朽壞。

因你必不將我的靈魂撇在陰間，也不讓你的聖者見朽壞。

因你必不將我的靈魂撇在陰間，也不讓你的聖者見朽壞。

因為你不會把我的靈魂撇在陰間，也不會讓你的聖者身體朽壞。

因你必不把我的靈魂撇在陰間，也必不容你的聖者見朽壞。

因為你必不將我的靈魂撇棄在陰間，也不給你的聖者見敗壞。

因為你不會把我的靈魂撇棄在陰間，也不會讓你的聖者經歷腐朽。

以爾不遺吾魂於陰府、不使爾聖者見腐、

以爾不遺我魂於陰府、不俾爾聖者朽壞、

因爾必不遺我魂於哈底、哈底有譯陰間有譯地獄下同不使爾聖者朽壞、

爾將保吾魂、弗使淪窅冥。寧容聖者軀、沾染朽腐痕。

because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, you will not let your holy one see decay.

You will not leave me in the place of the dead. You will not let your holy one rot away.

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

because you will not abandon me in Hades or allow your holy one to see decay.

For You will not abandon my soul to Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.

because You will not leave me in Hades or allow Your Holy One to see decay.

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

For you will not leave my soul among the dead or allow your holy one to rot in the grave.

David was looking into the future and speaking of the Messiah’s resurrection. He was saying that God would not leave him among the dead or allow his body to rot in the grave.

I am the living one. I died, but look— I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.

“ Roll the stone aside,” Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man’s sister, protested,“ Lord, he has been dead for four days. The smell will be terrible.”

for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death.

The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. And all were judged according to their deeds.

O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

But you are not like that, for the Holy One has given you his Spirit, and all of you know the truth.

“ But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last.And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God!I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!

It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed.

“ Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia. This is the message from the one who is holy and true, the one who has the key of David. What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open:

“ Go away! Why are you interfering with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are— the Holy One of God!”

“ Why are you interfering with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are— the Holy One of God!”

Death wrapped its ropes around me; the terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow.

The angel replied,“ The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.

I sank down to the very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth, whose gates lock shut forever. But you, O Lord my God, snatched me from the jaws of death!

“ And you people of Capernaum, will you be honored in heaven? No, you will go down to the place of the dead. For if the miracles I did for you had been done in wicked Sodom, it would still be here today.

But as for me, God will redeem my life. He will snatch me from the power of the grave. Interlude

Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people. You said,“ I have raised up a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king.

The people in Jerusalem and their leaders did not recognize Jesus as the one the prophets had spoken about. Instead, they condemned him, and in doing this they fulfilled the prophets’ words that are read every Sabbath.They found no legal reason to execute him, but they asked Pilate to have him killed anyway.“ When they had done all that the prophecies said about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.But God raised him from the dead!And over a period of many days he appeared to those who had gone with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now his witnesses to the people of Israel.“ And now we are here to bring you this Good News. The promise was made to our ancestors,and God has now fulfilled it for us, their descendants, by raising Jesus. This is what the second psalm says about Jesus:‘ You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.’For God had promised to raise him from the dead, not leaving him to rot in the grave. He said,‘ I will give you the sacred blessings I promised to David.’Another psalm explains it more fully:‘ You will not allow your Holy One to rot in the grave.’This is not a reference to David, for after David had done the will of God in his own generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors, and his body decayed.No, it was a reference to someone else— someone whom God raised and whose body did not decay.

“ In fact, this has happened here in this very city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed.

and he went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Abraham in the far distance with Lazarus at his side.

You rejected this holy, righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer.