'Decay' in the Bible

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors, they shall decay with them.

“But his body [lamenting its decay] grieves in pain over it,And his soul mourns over [the loss of] himself.”

If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

“Let his own eyes see his decay,And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol;Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

That he should live on eternally,That he should not undergo decay.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Through laziness the rafters [of state affairs] decay and the roof sags, and through idleness [the roof of] the house leaks.

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,

So I am like rot to Ephraimand like decay to the house of Judah.

I heard and my inward parts trembled,At the sound my lips quivered.Decay enters my bones,And in my place I tremble.Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,For the people to arise who will invade us.

But this will be the nature of the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.