Ecclesiastes 12:5
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5 Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.
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Job 17:13
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13 What if I go to the grave[a]
and make my bed in darkness?
Job 30:23
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23 And I know you are sending me to my death—
the destination of all who live.
Jeremiah 9:17-20
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Weeping in Jerusalem
17 This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says:
“Consider all this, and call for the mourners.
Send for the women who mourn at funerals.
18 Quick! Begin your weeping!
Let the tears flow from your eyes.
19 Hear the people of Jerusalem[a] crying in despair,
‘We are ruined! We are completely humiliated!
We must leave our land,
because our homes have been torn down.’”
20 Listen, you women, to the words of the Lord;
open your ears to what he has to say.
Teach your daughters to wail;
teach one another how to lament.
Footnotes
- 9:19 Hebrew Zion.
Proverbs 16:31
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31 Gray hair is a crown of glory;
it is gained by living a godly life.
Hebrews 9:27
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27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment,
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Mark 5:38-39
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38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw much commotion and weeping and wailing. 39 He went inside and asked, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.”
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Jeremiah 1:11
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11 Then the Lord said to me, “Look, Jeremiah! What do you see?”
And I replied, “I see a branch from an almond tree.”
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Isaiah 46:4
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4 I will be your God throughout your lifetime—
until your hair is white with age.
I made you, and I will care for you.
I will carry you along and save you.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave,[a] there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
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- 9:10 Hebrew to Sheol.
Proverbs 20:29
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29 The glory of the young is their strength;
the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old.
Psalm 71:18
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18 Now that I am old and gray,
do not abandon me, O God.
Let me proclaim your power to this new generation,
your mighty miracles to all who come after me.
Psalm 49:10-14
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10 Those who are wise must finally die,
just like the foolish and senseless,
leaving all their wealth behind.
11 The grave[a] is their eternal home,
where they will stay forever.
They may name their estates after themselves,
12 but their fame will not last.
They will die, just like animals.
13 This is the fate of fools,
though they are remembered as being wise.[b] Interlude
14 Like sheep, they are led to the grave,[c]
where death will be their shepherd.
In the morning the godly will rule over them.
Their bodies will rot in the grave,
far from their grand estates.
Job 15:10
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10 On our side are aged, gray-haired men
much older than your father!
Leviticus 19:32
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32 “Stand up in the presence of the elderly, and show respect for the aged. Fear your God. I am the Lord.
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Genesis 50:3-10
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3 The embalming process took the usual forty days. And the Egyptians mourned his death for seventy days.
4 When the period of mourning was over, Joseph approached Pharaoh’s advisers and said, “Please do me this favor and speak to Pharaoh on my behalf. 5 Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”
6 Pharaoh agreed to Joseph’s request. “Go and bury your father, as he made you promise,” he said. 7 So Joseph went up to bury his father. He was accompanied by all of Pharaoh’s officials, all the senior members of Pharaoh’s household, and all the senior officers of Egypt. 8 Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen. 9 A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.
10 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan River, they held a very great and solemn memorial service, with a seven-day period of mourning for Joseph’s father.
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Genesis 44:29
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29 Now if you take his brother away from me, and any harm comes to him, you will send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.[a]’
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Genesis 42:38
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38 But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother Joseph is dead, and he is all I have left. If anything should happen to him on your journey, you would send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.[a]”
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- 42:38 Hebrew to Sheol.
Genesis 44:31
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31 If he sees that the boy is not with us, our father will die. We, your servants, will indeed be responsible for sending that grieving, white-haired man to his grave.
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