45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

Anyone {in the open field} who touches {one who has been slain}, or a corpse, or a bone of a person, or a burial site, he will be unclean for seven days.

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. But until this day no one knows his burial site.

It happened after he buried him that he said to his sons, "When I die, you shall bury me in the tomb where the man of God [is] buried; you shall lay my bones beside his bones.

They buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in place of him.

'What {business do you have} here, and who {do you have} here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave [on] the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock?

And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, "No, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning." And his father wept for him.

For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol.

But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains. [If] harm meets him on the journey that you would take, you would bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol."

And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'

For the breaker waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me. The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

You must act according to your wisdom, but you must not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace.

who wait for death, but {it does not come}, and search [for] it more than [for] treasures, who rejoice {exceedingly}, [and] they are glad when they find [the] grave?

You shall come in maturity to [the] grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from [the] womb to the grave.

"My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; [the] graveyard [is] for me.

O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol. You preserved me alive from among those going down to [the] pit.

What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah

Her feet go down [to] death; her steps take hold [of] Sheol.

But he does not know that the dead [are] there, in the depths of Sheol [are] her guests.

The path of life [leads] upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below.

Sheol and barrenness of womb, the land is not satisfied [with] water, and fire does not say "enough!"

Because you have said, "We have {made} a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. [The] overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood."

Because he did not kill me in [the] womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and [her] womb [would be] pregnant forever.

{How much less} the defiant; [the] arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.

Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil [is] in their home [and] {heart}.

But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and {all that belongs to them}, and they go down alive [to] Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh."

Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.

Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the grave.

[The] wicked shall turn back to Sheol, all [the] nations forgetting God,

O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them [go] silently to Sheol.

Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms [will be for] Sheol to consume, [far from] his lofty abode.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and her nobles will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her.

Sheol below is getting excited over you, to meet {you when you come}; it arouses [the] dead spirits for you, all of [the] leaders of [the] earth. It raises all of [the] kings of [the] nations from their thrones.

If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness, [if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,' where then [is] my hope? And {who will see my hope}?read more.
Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"

A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will not come up.

For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you?

set free among the dead, like [the] slain lying in [the] grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand.

For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

Surely God will ransom my life from the {power} of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah

Where, O death, [is] your victory? Where, O death, [is] your sting?

Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down [to] Sheol and raises up.

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

Should I redeem them from {the power} of Sheol? Should I deliver them from death? Where [are] your plagues, Death? Where [is] your destruction, Sheol? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

because you will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will you permit your Holy One to experience decay.

for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you will not give your faithful one to see [the] grave.