Psalms 107:18
They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
BSB
ASV
Their soul abhorreth all manner of food; And they draw near unto the gates of death.
KJV
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
It is the sin of the soul that is the cause of sickness; we bring it upon ourselves both meritoriously and efficiently: Fools, because of their transgression, are thus afflicted; they are thus corrected for the sins they have committed and thus cured of their evil inclinations to sin.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Job 38:17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
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Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
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Isaiah 38:10I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
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I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.
Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
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Psalms 88:3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
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He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed.
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
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Psalms 9:13Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
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O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
