Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt—prophesying a final resurrection involving many (though not necessarily all) people, with ultimate judgment differentiating the righteous to eternal life and the wicked to eternal condemnation. This represents one of the Old Testament's clearest statements of resurrection and afterlife judgment. The awakening from sleep imagery suggests divine power over death itself.

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