Cast off among the dead,\par\tab Like the slain that lie in the grave,\par\tab Whom thou rememberest no more,\par\tab And they are cut off from thy hand.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who {\i among them} considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke {\i was due}?
As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:\par\tab Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications,\par\tab When I cried unto thee.
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;
{\b {\i A Psalm} of David.}\par\par\tab Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call:\par\tab My rock, be not thou deaf unto me;\par\tab Lest, if thou be silent unto me,\par\tab I become like them that go down into the pit.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.