I wish I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Remember, Lord, Your compassion
and Your faithful love,
for they have existed from antiquity.

Can one say about anything,
“Look, this is new”?
It has already existed in the ages before us.

But better than either of them is the one who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

Approach Me and listen to this.
From the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time anything existed, I was there.”
And now the Lord God
has sent me and His Spirit.

a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and dense overcast,
like the dawn spreading over the mountains;
a great and strong people appears,
such as never existed in ages past
and never will again
in all the generations to come.