45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.

And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.'

"For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me; the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

"My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;

But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, "Enough."

Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";

because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

"Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples."

Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.

Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.

The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.

Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.

If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,' where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?read more.
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"

As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.

For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.

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

"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"

The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.