Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

General references

Bible References

So man

Job 10:21
before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Job 30:23
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts, even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts; for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
yea, they shall be afraid of height, and terrors [shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail, because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go

Till the heavens

Job 19:25
But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
Psalm 102:26
They shall perish, but thou shall endure. Yea, all of them shall grow old like a garment. As a vesture thou shall change them, and they shall be changed,
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath. For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and those who dwell in it shall die in like manner. But my salvation shal
Isaiah 65:17
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah 66:22
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Matthew 24:35
The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.
Acts 3:21
whom heaven must indeed receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all his holy prophets from the age.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.
2 Peter 3:7
But now the heavens and the earth, which have been stored up by the same word, are being preserved for fire in a day of judgment and destruction of irreverent men.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him who sits upon it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
Revelation 21:1
And I saw a new sky and a new earth, for the first sky and the first earth passed away, and the sea is no more.

Awake

Job 3:13
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
Job 7:21
And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye who dwell in the dust, for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Daniel 12:2
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
John 11:11
He spoke these things, and after this he says to them, Our friend Lazarus has become asleep, but I go that I may awake him.
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
1 Thessalonians 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

General references

Ecclesiastes 9:4
Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?