23 Bible Verses about Death Looms Near

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."

"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"

They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.

A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.

I will cast you out, and your mother who bore you, into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to 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."

It shall happen, when they tell you, Where shall we go forth? Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: 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.

He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death [shall be given] to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.