16 Bible Verses about Oblivion

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?

He shall again have compassion on us;
He will subdue and tread underfoot our wickedness [destroying sin’s power].
Yes, You will cast all our sins
Into the depths of the sea.

‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces [scattering them far away],
I will remove the memory of them from men,”

“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name on the street.

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

for the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.

So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised in spite of their evil and] soon forgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility (vanity, emptiness).

Let Me alone, so that I may destroy them and wipe out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

the Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him; the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

The memory of the righteous [person] is a [source of] blessing,
But the name of the wicked will [be forgotten and] rot [like a corpse].

“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, and son and grandson,” declares the Lord.

“Sit in silence, and go into darkness,
O daughter of the Chaldeans;
For you will no longer be called
The queen of kingdoms.

“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.