A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:

The dead, come not to life again, The shades, do not arise, - Therefore, thou hast visited and destroyed them, And caused to perish every memorial of them.

So, a man, hath lain down, and shall not arise, until there are no heavens, they shall not awake, nor be roused up out of their sleep.

When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.

If a man die, can he live again? All the days of my warfare, would I wait, until my relief should come: -

And, crying out, and greatly mangling him, it came forth; and he became as if dead, so that, the more part, were saying - He is dead!

Then said he unto me, Son of man. These bones, are all the house of Israel, - Lo! they are saying. Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope We are quite cut off!

If its root, should become old in the earth, and, in the dust, its stock should die: Through the scent of water, it may break forth, and produce branches like a sapling,