I will sing to the Lord in my life. Rabbi Yannai and Rabbi Yehuda bar Shimon. One of them said, "If a person is placed under the hinge of a door to save himself from death, he will not be saved." And the other said, "If a person places his tongue under the hinge of a door to save himself from Sheol, he will not be saved." I will sing to the Lord in my life.
Let sins be finished from the earth. Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Nehemiah. Rabbi Yehuda says, "Let the innocent be finished, and the wicked are no longer wicked." At that time, I will bless the Lord. Rabbi Nehemiah says, "Let the evil and the wicked be finished, but they are not yet finished." At that time, I will bless the Lord. Rabbi Meir had a certain heretic in his neighborhood who caused him much anguish. He prayed for his death. Beruria, his wife, said to him, "What is your thinking? Is it because it is written, 'Let sins be finished'? But it is also written, 'Let sinners cease.' Sinners are mentioned, but not sins. At that time, I will bless the Lord." Rabbi Shmuel bar Yitzchak said, "In this world, Pharaoh was judged separately, Sisera was judged separately, Sennacherib was judged separately, and each one separately. But in the future, all will be judged at once, as it is written, 'Let sins be finished from the earth.' At that time, I will bless the Lord."Rabbi Shmuel bar Abba said, from the beginning of the Book of Psalms until here (referring to Psalm 113), there are 133 psalms and none of them contain the word "Hallelujah". When the wicked are finished (meaning, destroyed), what is written? "And the wicked shall be no more; bless the Lord, O my soul. Hallelujah" (Psalm 104:35). And why does it say in Proverbs 11:10, "When the wicked perish, there is joyful song"?