The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.
for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever. The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.
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.
It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place.
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.
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