for he will be great in the sight of ¹  the Lord. He ²  must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. ³ 

and the one who lives! I ¹  was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades! ² 

Sheol ¹  below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses ²  the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; ³  it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones. ⁴ 

The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind. ¹ 

He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security,

He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.

He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.

In time of famine ¹  he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword. ² 

for the Lord will plead their case ¹  and will rob those who are robbing ²  them.

Justice will be like a belt around his waist, integrity will be like a belt around his hips. ¹ 

But you were brought down ¹  to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the pit. ² 

He will set fire ¹  to the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn their gods or carry them off as captives. ²  He will pick Egypt clean like a shepherd picks the lice from his clothing. ³  He will leave there unharmed. ⁴ 

Panic and pitfall ¹  have come upon us, devastation and destruction. ² 

where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

When he sees the boy is not with us, ¹  he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon ¹  them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.” ² 

the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he ¹  has scattered you.

For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; ¹  it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

If ¹  you abandon the Lord and worship ²  foreign gods, he will turn against you; ³  he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, ⁴  though he once treated you well.” ⁵ 

David went on to say, “As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.