11 Bible Verses about People Rotting

Those who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

You will go up in flames like straw and hay! You have rejected the law of the holy God Jehovah the All-Powerful Holy One of Israel. Now your roots will rot, and your blossoms will turn to dust.

The plague will be that Jehovah will strike all the peoples that have gone to war against Jerusalem! Their flesh will wither away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes will wither away in their sockets, and their tongue will wither away in their mouth.

Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.

I am like a moth to Ephraim and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

We do not give up! Though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

The memory of the righteous is blessed. The name of the wicked will waste away.

A sound heart is life for the body. Envy (jealousy) is like bone cancer (decay) (rottenness to the bones).

A virtuous wife is a crown to her husband. She who acts shameful is rottenness in his bones.

I heard and my body trembled! My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness entered into my bones and I tremble. I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the people who invade us.