23 Bible Verses about Death Looms Near

For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.

To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves are for me.

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

and his disciples having come to him, awoke him, saying, 'Sir, save us; we are perishing.'

And having come near, they awoke him, saying, 'Master, master, we perish;' and he, having arisen, rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and there came a calm,

and a certain centurion's servant being ill, was about to die, who was much valued by him,

because he had an only daughter about twelve years old, and she was dying. And in his going away, the multitudes were thronging him,

he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.

And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.

A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again.

And thou, Pashhur, and all dwelling in thy house, Do go into captivity. and Babylon thou dost enter, And there thou diest, and there thou art buried, Thou and all loving thee, To whom thou hast prophesied falsely.'

And I have cast thee, And thy mother who bore thee, unto another country, Where ye were not born, and there do ye die.

Therefore thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am casting thee from off the face of the ground; this year thou diest, for apostasy thou hast spoken concerning Jehovah.'

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.

All food doth their soul abominate, And they come nigh unto the gates of death,

and now, he hath died, why is this -- I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

And it hath come to pass, when they say to thee, Whither do we go out? that thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah: Those who are for death -- to death, And those who are for the sword, to the sword, And those who are for famine, to famine, And those who are for captivity, to captivity.

and he hath come, and smitten the land of Egypt -- those who are for death to death, and those who are for captivity to captivity, and those who are for the sword to the sword.

become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.