Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

And LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

(The face of LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.)

But thou, O LORD, will abide forever, and thy memorial to all generations.

Let them be before LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,

The memory of a righteous man is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.

[Being] dead, they shall not live. [Being] deceased, they shall not rise. Therefore thou have visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

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Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

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Remembrances

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
And LORD said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
(The face of LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.)
But thou, O LORD, will abide forever, and thy memorial to all generations.
Let them be before LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth,
The memory of a righteous man is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.
[Being] dead, they shall not live. [Being] deceased, they shall not rise. Therefore thou have visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.

Ashes

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

To bodies

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
And LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
For we know that if the earthly house of our tent were destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens.

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His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
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