Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

But You, O Lord,

abide forever,

And Your

name to all generations.

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

The memory of the righteous is blessed,
But the name of the wicked will rot.

The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise;

Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

Ashes

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I 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!

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

General references

“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.