Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead?

All of its soldiers are strong and mighty. Their arrows will send you to your grave.

‘What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.

He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”

who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

“I am a temporary settler among you. Grant me ownership of a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead.”

So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site from the sons of Heth.

For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

“Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword.

“Listen, sir, you are a mighty prince among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead.”

When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.

if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”