25 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

The shades tremble beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof;

When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; and the hope of evil men perisheth.

Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

If a man beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he. For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness; moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.

For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?

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

I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

Prostrate among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave; whom thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from thy hand.

Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah. Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction?

The dead praise not Jah, neither any that go down into silence;

For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.

If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.

Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit.

For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.

Whom dost thou surpass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

Thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

The strong among the mighty, with them that helped him, shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol: they are gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

They have set him a bed in the midst of the slain, with all his multitude: their graves are round about him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though their terror was caused in the land of the living; and they have borne their confusion with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain.

And they lie not with the mighty, that are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war; and whose swords are laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

But do thou go thy way until the end; and thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.