23 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

The shades, tremble, beneath the waters and their inhabitants;

When the lawless man dieth, his expectation, perisheth, and, the hope of strong men, hath vanished.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do, - for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.

For, the living, knew that they should die, - -but, the dead, knew not, anything, neither had they any longer a reward, because forgotten was their memory.

Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth! For, in vain, it came in, and, in darkness, it departeth, - and, with darkness, its name, is covered: even the sun, it never saw, nor aught did it know, - more quietness, hath this than the other.

For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain?

He shall enter as far as the circle of his fathers, Nevermore, shall they see the light.

For, in death, is no remembrance of thee, - In hades, who shall give thanks unto thee?

Shall any wonder of thine, be known in the dark? Or, thy righteousness, in the land of forgetfulness?

I have been forgotten, like one dead - out of mind, I have been as a missing vessel.

Among the dead, is my couch, - Like the slain that lie in the grave, Where thou rememberest them no more, Yea, they, from thy hand, are cut off;

For the dead, wilt thou perform a wonder? Or shall, the shades, arising, give thee thanks? Selah. Shall Thy lovingkindness be recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness, in destruction?

The dead, cannot praise Yah, nor any that go down into silence;

For, hades, cannot praise thee Nor, death, celebrate thee, - They who go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness.

If, Yahweh, had not been a help to me, Soon had sunk into silence - my soul!

For, a fire, is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn as far as hades beneath, - And consume the earth with her produce, And set ablaze the foundations of the mountains:

In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.

Than whom, art thou more precious? Descend and be aid low with the uncircumcised:

Thou, therefore in the midst of the uncircumcised, shalt be overthrown. And shalt lie low with them who were thrust through by the sword.

The chiefs of the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hades, with his helpers,- They have descended They have lain down. The uncircumcised! Thrust through by the sword.

In the midst of them who were thrust through, have they have placed a couch for her with all her multitude, Round about it, are her graves,-All of them, uncircumcised. Thrust through with the sword. For that their terror was caused in the land of the living. And so they have borne their confusion, with them who descend into the pit, In the midst of them who were thrust through, hath it been pleased.

Therefore shall they not lie with the mighty men The fallen ones from age-past times, Who descended into hades with their weapons of war And their swords were placed under their heads. But their iniquities have come upon their bones Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

But, thou, go thy way to the end, - and thou shalt rest, and shalt rise to thy lot at the end of the days.