25 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

Those who are deceased tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants of it.

When a wicked man dies, [his] expectation shall perish, and the hope of iniquity perishes.

Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. For it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name of it is covered with darkness. Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it, this [one] has rest rather than the other.

For what does he care for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off?

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee. In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.

Will thou show wonders to the dead? Shall those who are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah. Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction?

The dead do not praise LORD, nor any who go down into silence,

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Unless LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon dwelt in silence.

For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Make haste to answer me, O LORD, my spirit fails. Hide not thy face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul. He has smitten my life down to the ground. He has made me to dwell in dark places as those who have been long dead.

He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.

Whom do thou pass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

But thou shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lay with those who are slain by the sword.

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. They lay still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

They have set a bed for her in the midst of the slain with all her multitude. Her graves are round about her, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword. For their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne

And they shall not lay with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads. But their iniquities are upon their bones, for [they w

But go thou thy way till the end is. For thou shall rest, and shall stand in thy lot at the end of the days.