As a cloud fades away and vanishes,
so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

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.

so man lies down never to rise again.
They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;
they will not stir from their sleep.

For only a few years will pass
before I go the way of no return.

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When a man dies, will he come back to life?
If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle
until my relief comes.

Then it came out, shrieking and convulsing him violently. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He’s dead.”

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look how they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

If its roots grow old in the ground
and its stump starts to die in the soil,
the smell of water makes it thrive
and produce twigs like a sapling.