'Perish' in the Bible

Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.

Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.”

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.

Then the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish, we are dying, we are all dying!

Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord, must die. Are we to perish completely?”

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will surely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet against them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you perish.

He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

Or the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

It shall come about that as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.

I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it.

Did not Achan the son of Zerah act unfaithfully in the things under the ban, and wrath fall on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.’”

know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

When you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which He has given you.”

“Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord;But let those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.”And the land was undisturbed for forty years.

David also said, “As the Lord lives, surely the Lord will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down into battle and perish.

Then David said to himself, “Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

“Let the day perish on which I was to be born,And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

“By the breath of God they perish,And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.

‘Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces;Unobserved, they perish forever.

“The paths of their course wind along,They go up into nothing and perish.

“So are the paths of all who forget God;And the hope of the godless will perish,

“The blessing of the one ready to perish came upon me,And I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.

If I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing,Or that the needy had no covering,

All flesh would perish together,And man would return to dust.

“But if they do not hear, they shall perish by the swordAnd they will die without knowledge.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,But the way of the wicked will perish.

Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,For His wrath may soon be kindled.How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!

When my enemies turn back,They stumble and perish before You.

For the needy will not always be forgotten,Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

But the wicked will perish;And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures,They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

My enemies speak evil against me,“When will he die, and his name perish?”

For he sees that even wise men die;The stupid and the senseless alike perishAnd leave their wealth to others.

But man in his pomp will not endure;He is like the beasts that perish.

Man in his pomp, yet without understanding,Is like the beasts that perish.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;As wax melts before the fire,So let the wicked perish before God.

For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down;They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever,And let them be humiliated and perish,

For, behold, Your enemies, O Lord,For, behold, Your enemies will perish;All who do iniquity will be scattered.

“Even they will perish, but You endure;And all of them will wear out like a garment;Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

The wicked will see it and be vexed,He will gnash his teeth and melt away;The desire of the wicked will perish.

His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;In that very day his thoughts perish.

When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish,And the hope of strong men perishes.

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices,And when the wicked perish, there is joyful shouting.

A false witness will not go unpunished,And he who tells lies will perish.

A false witness will perish,But the man who listens to the truth will speak forever.

He who sows iniquity will reap vanity,And the rod of his fury will perish.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves;But when they perish, the righteous increase.

Therefore behold, I will once again deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous;And the wisdom of their wise men will perish,And the discernment of their discerning men will be concealed.”

“Behold, all those who are angered at you will be shamed and dishonored;Those who contend with you will be as nothing and will perish.

“For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve you will perish,And the nations will be utterly ruined.

Therefore, thus says the Lord,“Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.And they will stumble against them,Fathers and sons together;Neighbor and friend will perish.”

Why are we sitting still?Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified citiesAnd let us perish there,Because the Lord our God has doomed usAnd given us poisoned water to drink,For we have sinned against the Lord.

Thus you shall say to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

They are worthless, a work of mockery;In the time of their punishment they will perish.

“Flight will perish from the shepherds,And escape from the masters of the flock.

For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will drive you out and you will perish.

for I have not sent them,” declares the Lord, “but they prophesy falsely in My name, in order that I may drive you out and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, “Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know! Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish?”

They are worthless, a work of mockery;In the time of their punishment they will perish.

therefore, behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and I will give you for spoil to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I will destroy you. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.”

“I will also cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod,And him who holds the scepter, from Ashkelon;I will even unleash My power upon Ekron,And the remnant of the Philistines will perish,”Says the Lord God.

“Flight will perish from the swift,And the stalwart will not strengthen his power,Nor the mighty man save his life.

“I will also smite the winter house together with the summer house;The houses of ivory will also perishAnd the great houses will come to an end,”Declares the Lord.

So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”

Then they called on the Lord and said, “We earnestly pray, O Lord, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life and do not put innocent blood on us; for You, O Lord, have done as You have pleased.”

Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.”

Ashkelon will see it and be afraid.Gaza too will writhe in great pain;Also Ekron, for her expectation has been confounded.Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza,And Ashkelon will not be inhabited.

“It will come about in all the land,”Declares the Lord,“That two parts in it will be cut off and perish;But the third will be left in it.

If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell.

So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

Then Jesus *said to him, “Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

Nevertheless I must journey on today and tomorrow and the next day; for it cannot be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

nor do you take into account that it is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

‘Behold, you scoffers, and marvel, and perish;For I am accomplishing a work in your days,A work which you will never believe, though someone should describe it to you.’”

Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish.”

For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;

(which all refer to things destined to perish with use)—in accordance with the commandments and teachings of men?

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.

They will perish, but You remain;And they all will become old like a garment,

By faith Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, after she had welcomed the spies in peace.

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.