The face of the LORD {is} against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret {sins} in the light of thy countenance.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Let his posterity be cut off; {and} in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, {yet} thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

{Is} not this laid up in store with me, {and} sealed up among my treasures?

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

And they consider not in their hearts {that} I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. {consider...: Heb. say not to}

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

The memory of the just {is} blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye {are} witnesses this day.

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

Your remembrances {are} like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.