en_tn_condensed/ecc/09/01.md

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This chapter explains that there is one thing that awaits all people: judgment. When people die, they will all face Yahweh's judgment. The ULB sets poetry (9:2, 5-6, and 11-12) farther to the right to show that it is poetry.

all of this I laid to my heart

"I thought very deeply about all this"

in the hand of God

"under God's control"

whether love or hate awaits him

"whether he will experience love or hate"