Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.
then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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