23 Bible Verses about Death Looms Near

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.

to shine upon them who were sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.

and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.

And the disciples came and awoke him, saying, Lord save: we perish.

and coming to him they woke him up, saying, Master, master, we perish. But he, rising up, rebuked the wind and the raging of the water; and they ceased, and there was a calm.

And a certain centurion's bondman who was dear to him was ill and about to die;

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as he went the crowds thronged him.

He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more.

And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy friends to whom thou hast prophesied falsehood.

And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, for thou hast spoken revolt against Jehovah.

Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.

They shall die of painful deaths; they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground, and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine, and their carcases shall be food for the fowl of the heavens and for the beasts of the earth.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:

But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

And he shall come and smite the land of Egypt: such as are for death to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die, for I have not found thy works complete before my God.