A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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GRAVE—TOMB.

The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.—I. Samuel, ii. 6.

God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me.—Psalm xlix. 15.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.—Ecclesiastes, ix. 10.

I will ransom them from the power of the grave: I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.—Hosea, xiii. 14.

When self-esteem, or other’s adulation,

Would cunningly persuade us we are something

Above the common level of our kind;

The grave gainsays the smooth-complexion’d flatt’ry,