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The memory of the righteous is a blessing,
    but the name of the wicked will rot.(A)

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For the righteous will never be moved;
    they will be remembered forever.(A)

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48 for he has looked with favor on the lowly state of his servant.
    Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed,(A)

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Truly I tell you, wherever the good news[a] is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.”

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  1. 14.9 Or gospel

13 May his posterity be cut off;
    may his name be blotted out in the second generation.(A)

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16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel and for God and his house.(A)

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15 Let them be before the Lord continually,
    and may his[a] memory be cut off from the earth.(A)

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  1. 109.15 Gk: Heb their

You have rebuked the nations; you have destroyed the wicked;
    you have blotted out their name forever and ever.(A)
The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you have rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.(B)

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17 Their memory perishes from the earth,
    and they have no name in the street.(A)

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34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”(A)

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36 Yet to his son I will give one tribe, so that my servant David may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.(A)

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God’s Ways Are Inscrutable

10 Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice;[a] they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast[b] in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.

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  1. 8.10 Cn: Heb buried
  2. 8.10 Gk: Heb they were forgotten

23 It[a] claps its[b] hands at them
    and hisses at them from its[c] place.(A)

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  1. 27.23 Or He (that is, God)
  2. 27.23 Or his
  3. 27.23 Or his

13 O hope of Israel! O Lord!
    All who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you[a] shall be recorded in the underworld,[b]
    for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.(A)

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  1. 17.13 Heb me
  2. 17.13 Or in the earth