Verse 17

There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:16 : 16 Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?
  • Rev 14:13 : 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them."
  • Job 14:13 : 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!
  • Ps 55:5-8 : 5 My heart trembles within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. 6 Fear and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me. 7 I said, 'Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.' 8 See, I would flee far away; I would stay in the wilderness forever. Selah.
  • Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; faithful people are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. 2 They find peace; they rest in their beds—those who walk in uprightness.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
  • Luke 12:4 : 4 I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body but can do nothing more afterward.
  • 2 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 Since it is just for God to repay those who trouble you with affliction, 7 and to give relief to you who are troubled, along with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his powerful angels.
  • Heb 4:9 : 9 Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same example of disobedience.
  • 2 Pet 2:8 : 8 (For that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard.)