45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.

After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,

He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.

What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a crypt for yourself out of rock?

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’

For the waves of death engulfed me;
the torrents of destruction terrified me.
The ropes of Sheol entangled me;
the snares of death confronted me.

Act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head descend to Sheol in peace.

who wait for death, but it does not come,
and search for it more than for hidden treasure,
who are filled with much joy
and are glad when they reach the grave?

You will approach the grave in full vigor,
as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.

I wish I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

My spirit is broken.
My days are extinguished.
A graveyard awaits me.

Lord, You brought me up from Sheol;
You spared me from among those
going down to the Pit.

What man can live and never see death?
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

Her feet go down to death;
her steps head straight for Sheol.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

For the discerning the path of life leads upward,
so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Sheol; a childless womb;
earth, which is never satisfied with water;
and fire, which never says, “Enough!”

For you said, “We have cut a deal with Death,
and we have made an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.”

because he didn’t kill me in the womb
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.

Moreover, wine betrays;
an arrogant man is never at rest.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
and like Death he is never satisfied.
He gathers all the nations to himself;
he collects all the peoples for himself.

Let death take them by surprise;
let them go down to Sheol alive,
because evil is in their homes and within them.

But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”

As dry ground and heat snatch away the melted snow,
so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Hide them together in the dust;
imprison them in the grave.

The wicked will return to Sheol—
all the nations that forget God.

Lord, do not let me be disgraced when I call on You.
Let the wicked be disgraced;
let them be silent in Sheol.

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat
and opens wide its enormous jaws,
and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,
her crowds, and those who carouse in her!

Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers of the earth.
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.

If I await Sheol as my home,
spread out my bed in darkness,
and say to corruption: You are my father,
and to the maggot: My mother or my sister,
where then is my hope?
Who can see any hope for me?
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Will it go down to the gates of Sheol,
or will we descend together to the dust?

As a cloud fades away and vanishes,
so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

For there is no remembrance of You in death;
who can thank You in Sheol?

abandoned among the dead.
I am like the slain lying in the grave,
whom You no longer remember,
and who are cut off from Your care.

For Sheol cannot thank You;
Death cannot praise You.
Those who go down to the Pit
cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

But God will redeem my life
from the power of Sheol,
for He will take me.Selah

Death, where is your victory?
Death, where is your sting?

The Lord brings death and gives life;
He sends some to Sheol, and He raises others up.

If only You would hide me in Sheol
and conceal me until Your anger passes.
If only You would appoint a time for me
and then remember me.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.
I will redeem them from death.
Death, where are your barbs?
Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

because You will not leave me in Hades
or allow Your Holy One to see decay.

For You will not abandon me to Sheol;
You will not allow Your Faithful One to see decay.