Psalm 89:48

Perplexity About God's Promises

⁴⁷ Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal? ⁴⁸ No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah) ⁴⁹ Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?

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Power of the Grave

Power Of Sheol

Hades

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Selah

Sheol

Psalm 49:15

But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety. (Selah)

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.

Job 30:23

I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

Psalm 22:29

All of the thriving people of the earth will join the celebration and worship; all those who are descending into the grave will bow before him, including those who cannot preserve their lives.

Psalm 49:7-9

Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward -- and even the memory of them disappears.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life's breath returns to God who gave it.

John 8:51

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death."

Acts 2:27

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

2 Corinthians 4:14

We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,