Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Bible References

He shall be

Proverbs 10:7
The remembrance of the righteous is a blessing,
but the name of the wicked will rot.
Ecclesiastes 8:10
In such circumstances, I saw the wicked buried. They came and went from the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they did so. This too is futile.
Isaiah 26:14
The dead do not live;
departed spirits do not rise up.
Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them;
You have wiped out all memory of them.

Wickedness

Job 14:7
There is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its shoots will not die.
Job 18:16
His roots below dry up,
and his branches above wither away.
Daniel 4:14
He called out loudly:

Cut down the tree and chop off its branches;
strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit.
Let the animals flee from under it,
and the birds from its branches.
Matthew 3:10
Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

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