Ecclesiastes 1:11

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.

I have declared the former things from of old. Yes, they went out of my mouth, and I revealed them. I did them suddenly, and they happened.

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

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

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.

You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred thirty years, then he died.

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who didn’t know Joseph.

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.

Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, until your people pass over, Yahweh, until the people you have purchased pass over.

Yahweh 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 memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.

When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.

The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’ ”

After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Then I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity.

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”

who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”

“ ‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

“Let them announce and declare to us what will happen! Declare the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be inhabited;’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They will be built,’ and ‘I will raise up its waste places;’

Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks. Behold, it is I.”

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

Afterward the woman also died.

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,