Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,
O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living water.
There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.
A Song of Ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together, to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king's daughter.” But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
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