25 Bible Verses about State Of The Dead

The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.

When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might,for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.

For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.

like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.

Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?

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

For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.

If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.

For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.

'Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.'

But as for you, you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: 'They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'

They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.

And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.

But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days."