For what is his interest ¹  in his home after his death, ²  when the number of his months has been broken off? ³ 

Those who survive him are buried by the plague, ¹  and their ²  widows do not mourn for them.

He redeemed my life ¹  from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; ¹  I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar. ² 

You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; ¹  those who know me leave me alone in the darkness. ² 

He sent them an assuring word ¹  and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped. ² 

The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death. ¹ 

I have seen another ¹  misfortune ²  on the earth: ³  It is an error a ruler makes. ⁴ 

Say to them, ¹  ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? ²  Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!’

“But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

So ¹  they went with the soldiers ²  of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.

That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead. ¹ 

Likewise also their wives ¹  must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in every respect.

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, ¹  sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. ² 

Then ¹  Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death – the lake of fire.

They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything ¹  that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers ²  for the land.