12  so a man lies down and rises not again;

till ^bthe heavens are no more he will not awake

or be ^croused out of his sleep.

25  For I ^vknow that my ^wRedeemer lives,

and at the last he will stand upon the ^xearth.¹

26  And after my skin has been thus destroyed,

yet in² my flesh I shall ^ysee God,

27  whom I shall see for myself,

and my eyes shall behold, and not ^zanother.

My heart ^afaints within me!