21 Bible Verses about People Passing Away

Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,

Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity.

"Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Thus says Yahweh, "A voice [is] heard in Ramah, lamentation, [the] weeping of bitterness. Rachel [is] weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted because of her children, for they are no [more]."

"A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping [for] her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because {they exist no longer}."

My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out [from] me, and they are not. There is no [one who] pitches my tent again, or [one who] puts up my tent curtains.

For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

Sudden terrors I will bring [on] you, and you shall no [longer exist]; and you will be sought, and you will not be found again {forever}," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

The traders among the peoples hiss over you; you have become horror, and {you shall be no more forever}!'"

The inhabitants of the Mortar shall wail, for all the traders have perished; all who trade with silver have been cut off.

Look! All those who are angry with you shall be ashamed and humiliated; {your opponents} shall be like nothing and shall become lost. You shall seek them, but you shall not find them; {your opponents} shall be like nothing, and the men of your war like nothing.

But waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived.

Yahweh says this: "Even though [they are] powerful and likewise many, even so they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer.

Let sinners perish completely from the earth, and [the] wicked {not remain alive}. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise Yah.

And yet a little [while] and the wicked will not be, and you will look carefully upon his place, but he will not be.

Then he passed on and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.

he will perish forever like his dung; [those who] have seen him will say, 'Where [is] he?'

With the passing of the tempest, there is no wickedness, but [the] righteous have a foundation forever.

The wicked are overthrown and {are no more}, but the house of the righteous shall stand.

Save, O Yahweh, for [the] pious have ceased [to be]; for [the] faithful have vanished from [among the] children of humankind.

For just as you have drunk on {my holy mountain}, all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as [if] they had never been.