45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

And whoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulcher to this day.

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, as he that heweth him out a sepulcher on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave to my son mourning: Thus his father wept for him.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief shall befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief shall befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly-men made me afraid; The sorrows of hell encompassed me; the snares of death seized me;

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down to the grave in peace.

Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not reach us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.

Yes also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire, as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth to him all nations, and collecteth to him all people:

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

But if the LORD shall make a new thing, and the earth shall open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

Drouth and heat consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned.

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

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?read more.
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who will give thee thanks?

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

O that thou wouldst hide me in the grave, that thou wouldst keep me secret, until thy wrath is past, that thou wouldst appoint me a set time, and remember me!

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues, O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from my eyes.

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption:

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.