You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people: “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.
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