Jesus’ comment would seem to suggest that hell may be somewhere within Hades. Then Jonah prayed to YHWH his God from the stomach of the fish, and he said, “I called out of my distress to YHWH, and He answered me. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level; then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters will overflow the secret place. Feminine Noun. both this word and 'Gehenna' are rendered 'Hell.' , I have cried out by day and in the night before You. Sing praise to the YHWH, you His godly ones, and give thanks to His holy name. Learn how your comment data is processed. What is hell? They couldn’t be more different: one is spiritual, the other physical; one is temporary, the other eternal. Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. Unlike Sheol, the fish was alive… and from life there was hope. Therefore, a word that is commonly translated as “hell” in the New Testament, gehenna does not in fact refer to a place of burning torture or torment in the afterlife. Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. http://bit.ly/Y34pCUWhat is the difference between Hades and Gehenna?From our series: The Revelation Puzzle - Questions and Answers is excited over you to meet you when you come; it arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; it raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones. The ultimate fate of the wicked is suffering outside of the gates of the New Jerusalem. She is the administrator of the website www.booklives.ca and is a library technician at the University of Prince Edward Island. Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord, which You swore to David in Your faithfulness? Then I will make to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land will become a ruin.”. The Bible uses words Hades, Sheol, and even Gehenna when referring to hell. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level; then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters will overflow the secret place. Thus, “hell” is an appropriate translation of “Hades.” Since “Gehenna” is Hebrew and “Hades” is Greek, it would make sense for the Greek-influenced Hebrews of the New Testament to use the two words interchangeably in referring to hell. To Heman, Sheol was a grave of forgetfulness, a dark pit where souls were rejected and cut off from YHWH, unable to see His face, and remembered no more. I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength, forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, and they are cut off from Your hand. Ethan prayed the prayer, and through Hosea, YHWH answered: YHWH: Yet I have been YHWH your God since the land of Egypt; and you were not to know any god except Me, for there is no Saviour besides Me. However, because Hades in the New Testament and Sheol in the Old are variously rendered hell or grave, there has been some misunderstanding about what hell and the grave are. It was deplorable to God, and so he renamed the place the Valley of Slaughter. With a careful study of the text, you come to realize that Yeshua used this word, instead of Hades, to make a specific point. – Hebrew Word Lessons, Sheqer: The Prison of Falsehood, LIES and Deceit – Hebrew Word Lessons, Panim/Paneh: Seek My FACE – Hebrew Word Lessons, Basar: Proclaimers of GOOD NEWS! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. After Yeshua’s death and resurrection, Peter delivered a poignant message. Essentially Yeshua was saying: sacrifice yourself, before you sacrifice one of My children! (see study on gehenna) … Other Scriptures in the New Testament indicated that sheol / hades is a temporary place where souls are kept as they await the final resurrection. Meaning of the word “Gehenna” Gehenna means valley of Hinnom. of assembly in the recesses of the north. Today our culture seems to accept the fate of the grave and the finality of death. for the foundation, firmly placed. The valley of Ginnom was almost exclusively referred to (in the Tanakh) as the place where children were sacrificed to Molech. Thereafter, it was deemed to be cursed. Shall I redeem them from death? How could God save David from the grave? But YHWH kept every promise He made, and He promised Salvation. The terms that are used: 'Sheol', 'Hades' and 'Gehenna… Yeshua, the Messiah, would go to Sheol but He would not be abandoned there to rot. Where now is my hope? Sarah has a Master of Arts degree in Early Medieval Studies from the University of York in England. If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then YHWH has not sent me. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; moreover, . When used as a term for the dead, it was a way of noting a place of judgment in the afterlife. Every unbelieving man and woman will stand … It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today…”. I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.”… From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. Hades, to those living within Greek culture (as the early Messiah followers were), was the god of the dead and the underworld, and the place of the dead was named after him. In the New Testament the concept of Sheol gets translated into English as “Hell”, but Yeshua used two different Greek words (for the English “Hell”): Hades and Gehenna. Why do You hide Your face from me? Or where can I flee from Your presence? The Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem is basically a deep, fine narrow valley on the south end of Jerusalem. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! For my soul has had enough troubles, and my life has drawn near to Sheol. Couldn’t God go anywhere, if He pleased? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? They looked on the corpses (not bodies being tortured, just lifeless bodies) and it was unacceptable in their sight. They will all respond and say to you, ‘Even you have been made weak as we, you have become like us. The word 'Hell' itself, however, doesn't appear much in the Bible, and where it does, there are seeming differences from this popular narrative. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Will Your wrath burn like fire? Hell - Norse, the realm of the Dead, ruled over by Hela, daughter of Loki, a place of cold. …Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? Sorting out Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, the Abode of the Just, and Hell What happened to Christ after He died? Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.” And they remembered His words, and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. The, for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth; and no one will frighten them away. . What we mean by this is that, at the time of death, the souls of the lost go directly to Hades, where they suffer in torment until the time of the Great White Throne … This word shows up twelve times in the New Testament (B’rit Chadashah) in four books: Matthew, Mark, Luke and James. However, unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author is prohibited. (Strong’s 7585). The other, a place of comfort called Abraham’s Boso… The fourth word that is mistranslated “hell” is the word “gehenna” which is associated with burning. Ethan the Ezrahite, writer of Psalm 89, asked a similar question: How long, O YHWH? which I make will endure before Me,” declares YHWH, “So your offspring and your name will endure. As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, and being satisfied, their heart became proud; therefore they forgot Me…. The Witch of Endor episode shows that Samuel, for all his great merit as a prophet, was condemned to spend eternity in the same gloomy underworld as everybody else. Sheol is the Hebrew word translated Hades (which is a transliteration from Greek). If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame, than, having your two feet, to be cast into hell [ten geennan], (where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched). This was as far from the Garden of Eden you could get. Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. Many passages indicated that when you went down to Sheol you didn’t get to come back. YHWH is everywhere, but those who go down to Sheol would be cut off, they would not see YHWH and there would be no hope. Although Sheol is not the hell that our culture imagines, it is not a happy place either. Is there anything worse than being forgotten? Prior to the NT, Hades was simply the realm of the dead. So here’s a list of all the verses where they are mentioned by name in the Bible, complete with an excerpt of that part of the verse. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. They will all respond and say to you, ‘Even, . Luke, the author of Acts, used the Greek word Hades, in its place. 2. But Sheol wasn’t just a place dusty dark place to lay your head when your days on earth came to an end, what made it worse was the fate of being forgotten: “Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned. Third, Hades is not 'hell,' i.e., the place of final punishment for the wicked, because the Greek word Gehenna is the word for 'hell' in the New Testament. Death. In a hotbed of human depravity, a place that all God-following Jews avoided at every cost, Peter stood up and declared the divinity of Yeshua. But you have been cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch, clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse. (Ecclesiastes 9:​10) Death cannot literally be burned. If I ascend to heaven, You are there; I said, “In the middle of my life I am to enter, ; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.” I said, “, ; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world…, …Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; it is You who has kept my soul from the, , for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. Will You hide Yourself forever? Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well? Comparison To Hades Gehenna is not Hades. Meaning of the word “Gehenna” Gehenna means valley of Hinnom. One of the places that the Greek people believed was a gate to the underworld was found in Paneas, later named (under Roman rule) Cesarea Philippi, (and now named Banias). But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. , which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind. ” But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test YHWH!” Then He said, “Listen now, O house of David! Gehenna [Hell] is a symbolical place for the wicked at a future date, per Revelation. “How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning [shining one], son of the dawn! ( Log Out /  Haidees (Hades) is one of the three Greek words (haidees, tartaroo, geenna) that the King James Version of the Bible translates as “hell”. As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, and being satisfied, their heart became proud; therefore, Interesting that both Job and Ethan talked about being forgotten in Sheol. “Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; it arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; it raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones. Remember what my span of life is; for what vanity You have created all the sons of men! Your covenant with death will be canceled, and your pact with Sheol will not stand.”. If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then, , the ground that was under them split open; and, , and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions. Everyone dies and goes down to Sheol… even the patriarch Jacob knew he would go there, eventually. There would be only one human sacrifice to bring salvation to the people… one man to be raised up, onto a cross, to be the sacrificial lamb for the people… one man to rise out of Sheol and to ascend to the heavens. And wickedness will be broken like a tree.”, to do all these deeds; for this is not my doing. It is the same thing as the lake of fire mentioned in Revelation Ch.20. Unfortunately, the King James Version of the Bible uses the Old English word “hell” to translate the Hebrew word sheol, and the Greek words hades, tartaros and gehenna.This has caused great confusion in the Church in leading many Christians away from a true understanding of the meaning of gehenna.Heaven is a place and is located in the “sides of the North” due north of the North Pole in … , that You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You, that You would set a limit for me and. And he said, “Surely. Each occurs twelve times. The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by, for we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”, Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. I call upon YHWH, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. Yeshua, shockingly, took His disciples there. For Jacob this was not a heaven or hell debate… it was merely saying that the loss of his son would kill him; it would put him in his grave, (not send him to hell). , according to the abominations of the nations whom YHWH had driven out before the sons of Israel. . According to Jesus, gehenna or hell is where both the body and soul are destroyed (Matthew 10:28). However, having more than one word for grave shouldn’t be of concern; English is notorious for multiple words meaning the same thing: grave, tomb, sepulchre, cemetery plot, burial chamber… and it’s not the only language to do this. Atheists believe that at the end of life there is nothing; the pit of nothingness is all there is. Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and saw the tomb and how His body was laid. Return, O YHWH, rescue my soul; save me because of Your lovingkindness. Job squarely places the biggest question in front of us: if a human dies, will they live again? Do we know this is to differentiate between Hell and Purgatory? Man expires, and. Sacrifice was never the plan for humans. . Will it go down with me to Sheol? “My days are past, my plans are torn apart, even the wishes of my heart. There would be only one human sacrifice to bring salvation to the people… one man to be raised up, onto a cross, to be the sacrificial, ; my eye will not again see good. They knew of all the references to it in the Tanakh, as a place of great human evil, a Valley of Slaughter which held the dead. View all posts by hebrewwordlessons. You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of gladness with Your Presence.’, Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Like Sheol, the underworld was in the great depths of the earth, but unlike Sheol it had many rivers all describing sentiments of destruction: hatred, pain, forgetfulness, fire and wailing. So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight. I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Sarah E. Fisher and hebrewwordlessons.com with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Its fire shall never be quenched "And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:" (Mark 9:43, 45). After Yeshua was raised up onto the cross, He came down and was buried in the grave… but Sheol could not hold Him down. All Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “. YHWH had granted Hannah her deepest desire… to become a mother. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. So Gehenna is hell, the place where the unrighteous dead are cast. The Hebrew is “Ge-Hinnom.” This ravine or valley is just outside of Jerusalem to the southwest. Now the women who had come with Him out of Galilee followed, and. This is a fascinating passage. Jeremiah 7:30-34 (see also Jeremiah 32:25). In her joy, she gave a prophetic prayer: “YHWH kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. But if YHWH brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol [Sh’ohlah], then you will understand that these men have spurned YHWH.”, As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions. what my span of life is; for what vanity You have created all the sons of men! I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and. Understanding the Hebrew Bible one Word at a time. Until the heavens are no longer, he will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep. He, . God raised Him up, He conquered death and left Sheol behind. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Yeshua was pointing the finger directly at the Pharisees… they were taking sons, children of YHWH, and converting them to evil, no differently than sacrificing children directly to Ba’al or Molech. You will not be united with them in burial, because you have ruined your country, you have slain your people. If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast, , where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.”, The valley of Ginnom was almost exclusively referred to (in the Tanakh) as the place where children were sacrificed to Molech. Just like Isaiah announced seven hundred years prior, Yeshua would not decay. If each time the word Gehenna is used it is replaced by “Garbage dump”, a whole different understanding of what is being said comes into view. O YHWH, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You. Sheol, hades and hell are basically the same thing: "hell" is English, "sheol" is Hebrew "hades" is Greek; So let's use the word "hell" since that's our English word for it. Although being swallowed by a fish was equivalent to going to the grave… (who comes back from that?! In this town was a large, deep, cave thought to be a gate to Hades, which you can still see today. In the New Testament the concept of Sheol gets translated into English as “Hell”, but Yeshua used two different Greek words (for the English “Hell”): Hades and Gehenna. Gehinnom is not Hell, but originally a grave and in later times a sort of purgatory where one is judged based on one's life's deeds, or rather, where one becomes fully aware of one's own shortcomings and negative a ; and they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”, Isaiah looked forward to the new heaven and the new earth where, , because you travel around on sea and land to make, Sacrifice was never the plan for humans. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him. He proclaimed, out-loud, that YHWH would not abandon his soul to Sheol; he would rise up and be delivered out of the depths of darkness and the pit of nothingness: Teach me Your way, O YHWH; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go into hell [ten geennan], into the unquenchable fire, (where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched). In this translation the two words are everywhere kept distinct. Sitting down, He [Jesus] called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”, ; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me…, , it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea. And if you are a child of YHWH, it’s better to do these drastic measures than be thrown to the place where the gods of evil sacrificed children; the place that YHWH called the Valley of Slaughter, where people become a meal to birds and beast, in a perverted and polluted land. It comes from the root word abad, meaning to perish. The author and owner of this site is a proponent of the Open Access model of scholarly communication. But I, O YHWH, have cried out to You for help, and in the morning my prayer comes before You. (Revelation 19:20; 20:10, 14, 15; 21:8) The following are cast into the lake of fire: 1. Hades, to those living within Greek culture (as the early Messiah followers were), was the god … Instead, the word gehenna refers to a literal place outside the walls of Jerusalem. He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with nobles, and inherit a seat of honour; for the pillars of the earth are YHWH’s, and He set the world on them. The New Testament term Gehenna renders the Hebrew place name Ge Hinnom, Valley of (the son of) Hinnom, immediately south of the walls of Jerusalem. Hades is not the same as The Abyss, Gehenna, and the Lake of Fire, although there is a great chasm visible from Hades (Lk 16:36, Enoch 21:7-8) that probably is the Abyss. Followers of the Adversary were like sheep appointed for Sheol, but followers of God’s sacrificial Lamb would be redeemed: As sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd; and the upright shall rule over them in the morning, and their form shall be for Sheol to consume so that they have no habitation. What’s the actual difference between all of these? Be gracious to me, O YHWH, for I am pining away; heal me, O YHWH, for my bones are dismayed. It’s fascinating that in the Gospel account of Mark, Yeshua started his diatribe about hell (or. ) Feminine Noun. In the sermon he quoted a Psalm of David (Psalm 16:8-11) which included the word Sheol. All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb. Shall we together go down into the dust?”. But David had great hope in YHWH… death would encompass, overwhelm, surround and confront him, but YHWH promised salvation… and YHWH would deliver. Gehenna or Gehinnom is thought to be a small valley in Jerusalem. It is an allusion and alternate name to refer to the hell of the damned. Other Scriptures in the New Testament indicated that sheol/hades is a temporary place … Change ). Standing at the place considered, by the Greeks, to be the gateway to Hades, He asked His disciples a pointed question: Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. The Greek word gehenna is used in the New Testament for "hell" and is derived from the Hebrew word hinnom. Yeshua never shied away from talking about hell, or heaven for that matter. Gei ben Hinnom was where children were sacrificed into a fire to appease the foreign god Molech. Judaism even agrees that there will be a "Gehenna" after the Messiah comes, but erroneously thinks a wicked soul will only stay there … ( Log Out /  “Then they will go forth and look on the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. It was only toward the end of the OT period that Judaism developed the idea of a segregated Heaven and Hell, one where good people are rewarded and the other place where bad people are punished. The finality of Sheol is the horrific thought of becoming nothingness, remembered no longer, without hope and without YHWH. Now they were. This would be the fate of the Shining one, the Chief Evildoer, the Adversary, ha-Satan… he would not raise himself to the heights of heaven, instead he would be thrust down to Sheol to the recesses of the pit. Let my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry! Sheol was a place of darkness; it was a pit with worms, where we all eventually would go, down into the dust. New replies are no longer allowed. In the Hebrew context Abaddon was a place of destruction where one goes to meet one’s death. It wasn’t a question of “if He could”, it was a question of “if He would”. Abaddon appears only in the writings (Job, Psalms and Proverbs) and refers to the place that the Greeks called Tartaros, deeper than Hades. For David says of Him, ‘I saw YHWH always in my presence; for He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. Jesus used this word ten times as recorded in the New Testament. – Hebrew Word Lessons, Massa: The BURDEN of Bad News – Hebrew Word Lessons, Yom ha-sh’lishi: The THIRD DAY – Hebrew Word Lessons. Habakkuk pointed out that Sheol was always hungry and death was always looking for more to eat: “Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, so that he does not stay at home. They are all mentioned in Scripture. King Hezekiah was at the brink of his own death, when God spared him. He would rise up. (Revelation 20:10) As a spirit creature, the Devil cannot be harmed by literal fire.​—Exodus 3:2; Judges 13:20. Your pomp and the music of your harps have been, are spread out as your bed beneath you and. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Because it knows it will be judged therein in the World to Come." And who regards my hope? SHEOL/HADES: THE PRESENT HELL. For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares YHWH, “they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. A Bible study will provide us the answer to this question. with a child in his arms. Hades is a temporary place of the dead where only their souls exist. Therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares YHWH, “when it will no longer be called, ; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place. O YHWH, why do You reject my soul? All Your breakers and billows passed over me. Sing praise to the YHWH, you His godly ones, and, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Ya’ats: Wonderful, COUNSELLOR – Hebrew Word Lessons, Yeled: Whose CHILD is This? As was first mentioned, people have many definitions for the word hell. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “, how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the, His words, and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord, which You swore to David in Your faithfulness? He is not here, but He has risen. Matthew 10:28 (NASB) Destiny of Demons. It was fire, and torment, and death of the innocent. Geenna gets its root from the Hebrew place name, Gei ben Hinnom (Valley of the son of Hinnom)  or sometimes just Gei Hinnom (Valley of Hinnom). In the New Testament, the Greek word for this place is Hades, and our English translation is Hell. Will Your wrath burn like fire? If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness; if I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; to the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice. But YHWH was quick to point out that after all He had done, it was His own people who had forgotten Him. It first appears in the Bible in… They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom [b-gei ben-hinnom], to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind. Ransom and redemption was exactly what YHWH planned and it was exactly what He would deliver! With a careful study of the text, you come to realize that Yeshua used this word, instead of Hades, to make a specific point. In the sermon he quoted a Psalm of David (. The religion of Persia at the time was Zoroastrianism, which had a profound effect on Judaism (and therefore Christianity). Standing at the place considered, by the Greeks, to be. . A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery: I said, “In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.” I said, “I will not see YHWH, YHWH in the land of the living; I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world…, …Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; it is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. My Salvation, has lifted gehenna vs hades up! ” said ethan was direct:,... Biggest question in front of us: How long, O Lord which. 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