45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

Whoever is outdoors and touches someone who was killed or has died naturally or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave will be unclean for seven days.

He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor. No man knows his burial place to this day.

After the burial the prophet said to his sons: When I die, bury me in this grave and lay my body next to his.

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

What right do you have here? Who are your relatives here that you have cut out a tomb here for yourself, cutting a tomb on the height, and carving a habitation for yourself in the rock?

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

I am filled with troubles, and my life comes closer to the grave.

Jacob replied: My son will not go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If any harm comes to him on the trip you are taking, the grief would drive this gray-haired old man to his grave!

If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.'

The waves of death had surrounded me. The torrents of destruction had overwhelmed me. The danger of death was around me. The grave set its trap for me.

You know what to do. You must not let him die a natural death.

They long for death that does not come. They search for it more than for hidden treasure. They are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave.

You will come to your grave at a very old age like a stack of hay in its season.

If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!'

My spirit is broken. My days are extinguished. The grave is waiting for me.

O Jehovah, you brought me up from the grave. You kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

Can man go on living and never see death? Who can set himself free from the power of the grave?

Her feet go down to death. Her steps take hold of the grave.

He does not know the dead are there. Her guests are in the depths of the grave.

The way of life leads upward for the wise. That he may depart from the grave beneath.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that does not say: It is enough.

Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!

He did not kill me before birth, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb ever pregnant.

Wine is treacherous and never allows an arrogant man to rest. He never stays home. He has a large appetite like the grave. Like death he is never satisfied. He gathers all nations and collects all the people.

Let death suddenly take them! Let them go into the grave while they are still alive, for evil lives in their homes and within them.

But if Jehovah does something totally new, if the ground opens up, swallows them and everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive to their graves; then you will know that these men have treated Jehovah with contempt.

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters! In the same way the grave takes those who have sinned.

Bury them all in the dust together and shroud their faces in the grave.

The grave is the destiny of all the wicked, of all those who reject God.

O Jehovah, I have called on you, so do not let me be put to shame. Let wicked people be put to shame. Let them be silent in the grave.

Like sheep, they are laid in the grave. Death will shepherd them. The upright will rule them in the morning. Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes.

That is why the grave's appetite increases. It opens its mouth very wide so that honored people and common people will go down into it. Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it.

The grave below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up those who are dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones.

Should I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness? If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister! Where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me?read more.
Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?

Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes; those who die will not come back.

No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave?

I am abandoned with the dead, like those who have been killed and lie in graves. I am like those whom you no longer remember, who are cut off from your hand (power) (care).

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

But God will redeem me (buy me back) from the power of the grave because he will receive me.

O death, where is your sting (power to hurt)? O grave, where is your victory?

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to the grave and brings up.

If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!

I will ransom them from the power of the grave. I will redeem them from death! O death, where are your stings (plagues)? O grave, where is your destruction (devastation)? Compassion will be concealed from my eyes. (1 Co 15:54-57)

Because you will not leave me in the grave, neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. (Psalm 16:10)

You do not abandon me to the grave or allow your holy one to decay.