Verse 17

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

Referenced Verses

• Job 17:16 : 16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
• Rev 14:13 : 13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say,“Write this:‘Blessed are the dead, those who die in the Lord from this moment on!’”“Yes,” says the Spirit,“so they can rest from their hard work, because their deeds will follow them.”
• Job 14:13 : 13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
• Ps 55:5-8 : 5 Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me. 6 I say,“I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place! 7 Look, I will escape to a distant place; I will stay in the wilderness.(Selah) 8 I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind and the gale.”
• Isa 57:1-2 : 1 The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil. 2 Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.
• Matt 10:28 : 28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Luke 12:4 : 4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.
• 2 Thess 1:6-7 : 6 For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.
• Heb 4:9 : 9 Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
• Heb 4:11 : 11 Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.
• 2 Pet 2:8 : 8 (for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)