If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'

I will

Many are saying: Who will show us good? Lift up the light of your countenance (face) (presence) upon us, O Jehovah!

I have inherited your laws forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.

We all, with unveiled face, behold as in a mirror the glory of God and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, exactly as from God's Spirit.

I shall

You make the path of life known to me. Complete joy is in your presence. It is pleasant to be at your right hand forever.

They drink their fill of the abundance of your house. You give them the river of your delights to drink.

How blessed is the one you choose to bring near to you, to dwell in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy Temple.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

They will hunger no more, nor thirst any more; neither shall the sunlight beat down on them, nor any heat.

Then I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying: Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. He will dwell with them and they will be his people! God will be with them, and be their God.

I awake

Like sheep, they are laid in the grave. Death will shepherd them. The upright will rule them in the morning. Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes.

so men lie down and do not rise. Until the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

The tombs were split open and many [dead] bodies were tossed upright [on the ground].

With

Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

Christ will, through his power, bring everything under his authority. He will change our humble bodies and make them like his glorified (glorious) body (literally and figuratively: body of his glory). He is able to subject all things to himself.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.