45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

And every one that toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead person, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-Peor; and no man knows his sepulchre to this day.

And it came to pass after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons saying, When I am dead, bury me in the sepulchre in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself?

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.

But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief should befall him, ye will bring down my grey hairs with misery to Sheol.

For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid. The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;

And thou shalt do according to thy wisdom, and not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? --

Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.

I should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine.

Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.

What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

The path of life is upwards for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.

For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.

because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!

And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.

Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.

but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.

Drought and heat consume snow waters; so doth Sheol those that have sinned.

Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in secret.

The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.

Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and her splendour shall descend into it, and her multitude, and her tumult, and all that is joyful within her.

Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the earth; making to rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness: I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister! And where is then my hope? yea, my hope, who shall see it?read more.
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when our rest shall be together in the dust.

The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?

Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.

For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: for he will receive me. Selah.

Where, O death, is thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, --

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death: where, O death, are thy plagues? where, O Sheol, is thy destruction? Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou give thy gracious one to see corruption.

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.