Psalm 142: A recommended prayer for those who fear dying

1: David’s recommendation prayer when being in a tomb:

A supplication – my voice shrieks out to Yehoweh, my voice makes Yehoweh show me favour.

2: I pour out my complaint to His Face

I emphasize my trouble to His Face.

3: When my spirit causes me to cover up / shroud myself and You knew my preferred track/lane in the path wherein I walk where they concealed a spring loaded snare for me.

4: Scan to the right and see! There is no one who causes to notice me. Flight destroyed for me. No one sought my soul.

5: Yehoweh, I shrieked out to You.

I said , “you are my refuge in a land of the living(s).

6: Cause Your ears to prick up to my joyful shout for I was greatly depressed.

Cause to snatch me away from pursuers for they are more obstinate than I.

7: Cause my soul to break out of prison so I cause my hands to be lifting up in praise to Your Name, righteous ones surround me for You made a good deal over me.

 Prayer: Lord if I get frightened when my soul is dying and my spirit is being raised to be in front of You in the land of the living, hear my cry and snatch me up from strange pursuers, unentangle me from my prison ropes. May I be surrounded by the righteous in the land of the living and raise my hands in praise to You. Amen.

Related notes about what happens when we die from 1 Cor 15:

If you don’t like going to sleep (keimai 18), you wont like dying.

If you don’t like being woken up with an alarm, you wont like resurrection (ana+histemi – stand up again, egeira – wake up).

I Cor 15 also concurs with Ps 116 in the pictures of a trumpet waking up those resting in sleep.

Jesus awoke on the third day and appeared to Kepha and the 12 (so Judas was still around or is it a different 12 not including Kepha) and then 500 (vv a5-8).

 Jesus wakes up / is raised up  (egeira) but we are resurrected / stood up again (anastasia – ana + histemi) (vv 20-21).

The anastasia is when we are sown and the seed dies (happens at our dying) and a new body breaks forth:

Sown in decay (fthora), raised in immortality (afthora) (v43,53)

Sown in dishonour (atimia), raised in glory (doxe)

Sown in weakness (asthenia), raised in power (dynamei) (v43)

Sown in a soul (psyche) body, raised in a spirit (pnema) body (v44)

The mortal (thanatos – death) sinks into (en+dunay) immortality (a+thanatos) (v53)

like the first Adam who was a living soul (from roots psyche + zoe)

The last (eschatos) Adam is made into a living spirit (from roots pneuma + zoe + poieio – to make) (v45)

The first man was from earth’s dust (from ges, koos),

the Second Man was from heaven (ouranu) (v47)

And as we bear the image (icon) of the dust (koos)

We will bear the image of the heaven (epi +ouranos) (v49).

 

Mysteriously not everyone sleeps (keimai) though.

But all are changed (allo) (v51).

In an instant / indivisible (a (not) + tomos (divisible) = atomos)

At The blink /glance/jerk (ripto from rapido) of an eye

At the last (eschato) trumpet (salpingi) (v52 – is this a single trumpet for all or one for every person?)

Isaiah 57

1: The righteous perished and no man took it / set it up to heart.

And merciful men are gathered to be taken away and no one takes into consideration (Hifil of discerns) that the righteous are gathered to be taken away from the face of The trouble (H’ Ra).

2: He enters wholeness.

The straightforward (N’kokho from Nokha) walkers settle down to rest (y’nukhu from Noah) in their beds.