This is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: “Go visit this administrator, Shebna, who supervises the palace, ¹  and tell him: ² 

The ¹  guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.

They intended to bury him with criminals, ¹  but he ended up in a rich man’s tomb, ²  because ³  he had committed no violent deeds, nor had he spoken deceitfully.

I should have been as though I had never existed; ¹  I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

For no one remembers you in the realm of death, ¹  In Sheol who gives you thanks? ² 

Pilate said to them, “Take ¹  a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.”

After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet ¹  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,

He ¹  buried him in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.

So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly ¹  over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever. ¹ 

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord ¹  descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

While ¹  they were going, some ²  of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

The ¹  women ²  were terribly frightened ³  and bowed ⁴  their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living ⁵  among the dead?

Now it was Mary Magdalene, ¹  Joanna, ²  Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles.

“Their throats are open graves, ¹  they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.” ² 

After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith ¹  their god.

Nehemiah son of Azbuk, head of a half-district of Beth Zur, worked after him as far as the tombs of David and the artificial pool and the House of the Warriors.

For ¹  they do not speak the truth; ²  their stomachs are like the place of destruction, ³  their throats like an open grave, ⁴  their tongues like a steep slope leading into it. ⁵ 

Will I deliver them from the power of Sheol? No, I will not! ¹  Will I redeem them from death? No, I will not! O Death, bring on your plagues! ²  O Sheol, bring on your destruction! ³  My eyes will not show any compassion! ⁴ 

This is what the Lord says: “Because Moab has committed three crimes ¹  – make that four! ²  – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. ³  They burned the bones of Edom’s king into lime. ⁴