Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.
He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal[2] should come.
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.
For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
But he passed away,[4] and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.
Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!"
that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.