Ecclesiastes 12:5
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5 Also they are afraid of height,
And of terrors in the way;
When the almond tree blossoms,
The grasshopper is a burden,
And desire fails.
For man goes to (A)his eternal home,
And (B)the mourners go about the streets.
Job 17:13
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13 If I wait for the grave as my house,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
Job 30:23
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23 For I know that You will bring me to death,
And to the house (A)appointed for all living.
Jeremiah 9:17-20
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The People Mourn in Judgment
17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Consider and call for (A)the mourning women,
That they may come;
And send for skillful wailing women,
That they may come.
18 Let them make haste
And take up a wailing for us,
That (B)our eyes may run with tears,
And our eyelids gush with water.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:
‘How we are plundered!
We are greatly ashamed,
Because we have forsaken the land,
Because we have been cast out of (C)our dwellings.’ ”
20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.
Proverbs 16:31
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31 (A)The silver-haired head is a crown of glory,
If it is found in the way of righteousness.
Hebrews 9:27
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27 (A)And as it is appointed for men to die once, (B)but after this the judgment,
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Mark 5:38-39
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38 Then He came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw [a]a tumult and those who (A)wept and wailed loudly. 39 When He came in, He said to them, “Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but (B)sleeping.”
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- Mark 5:38 an uproar
Jeremiah 1:11
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11 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”
And I said, “I see a [a]branch of an almond tree.”
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- Jeremiah 1:11 Lit. rod
Isaiah 46:4
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4 Even to your old age, (A)I am He,
And even to gray hairs (B)I will carry you!
I have made, and I will bear;
Even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 (A)Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your (B)might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.
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Proverbs 20:29
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29 The glory of young men is their strength,
And (A)the splendor of old men is their gray head.
Psalm 71:18
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18 Now also (A)when I am old and grayheaded,
O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to everyone who is to come.
Psalm 49:10-14
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10 For he sees wise men die;
Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,
And leave their wealth to others.
11 [a]Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,
Their dwelling places to all generations;
They (A)call their lands after their own names.
12 Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not [b]remain;
He is like the beasts that perish.
13 This is the way of those who are (B)foolish,
And of their posterity who approve their sayings. Selah
14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave;
Death shall feed on them;
(C)The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;
(D)And their beauty shall be consumed in [c]the grave, far from their dwelling.
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- Psalm 49:11 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. Their graves shall be their houses forever
- Psalm 49:12 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. understand (cf. v. 20)
- Psalm 49:14 Or Sheol
Job 15:10
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10 (A)Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
Much older than your father.
Leviticus 19:32
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32 (A)‘You shall [a]rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and (B)fear your God: I am the Lord.
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- Leviticus 19:32 rise to give honor
Genesis 50:3-10
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3 Forty days were required for him, for such are the days required for those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians (A)mourned[a] for him seventy days.
4 Now when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to (B)the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying, 5 (C)‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying; in my grave (D)which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come back.’ ”
6 And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.”
7 So Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8 as well as all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen. 9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great gathering.
10 Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they (E)mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. (F)He observed seven days of mourning for his father.
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- Genesis 50:3 Lit. wept
Genesis 44:29
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29 But if you (A)take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’
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Genesis 42:38
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38 But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for (A)his brother is dead, and he is left alone. (B)If any calamity should befall him along the way in which you go, then you would (C)bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.”
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Genesis 44:31
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31 it will happen, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die. So your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
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