Jacob set up a marker ¹  over her grave; it is ²  the Marker of Rachel’s Grave to this day.

who rejoice ¹  even to jubilation, ²  and are exultant ³  when ⁴  they find the grave? ⁵ 

Their ¹  graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. ²  Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept ¹  over the funeral mound, ² 

You will come to your grave in a full age, ¹  As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

My spirit is broken, ¹  my days have faded out, ²  the grave ³  awaits me.

Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead? ¹ 

“Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, ¹  all of them struck down by the sword. ² 

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.

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

They will travel to Sheol like sheep, ¹  with death as their shepherd. ²  The godly will rule ³  over them when the day of vindication dawns; ⁴  Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses. ⁵ 

They live out ¹  their years in prosperity and go down ²  to the grave ³  in peace.

And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, ¹  or the body of someone who died of natural causes, ²  or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days. ³ 

The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave ¹  and raises up.

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.

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

“Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. ¹  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Woe to you! ¹  You are like unmarked graves, and people ²  walk over them without realizing it!” ³ 

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