21 Bible Verses about People Passing Away

But we speak wisdom among them that are mature: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?

Thus says the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.

In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

My tent is plundered, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent anymore, and to set up my curtains.

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, so that it will not be a people.

I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more: though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again, says the Lord GOD.

The merchants among the people shall hiss at you; you shall become a terror, and never shall be any more.

Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that trade with silver are cut off.

Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish. You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with you: they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing not existing.

And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

Thus says the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.

Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless you the LORD, O my soul. Praise you the LORD.

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Yet he shall perish forever like his own refuse: they who have seen him shall say, Where is he?

As the whirlwind passes, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.

[To the Chief Musician upon sheminith. A Psalm of David.] Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had never been.