'Perish' in the Bible

Why should we die here in front of you—both us and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we with our land will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed so that we can live and not die, and so that the land won’t become desolate.”

You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

Anyone who comes near the Lord’s tabernacle will die. Will we all perish?”

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.

The Lord your God will also send the hornet against them until all the survivors and those hiding from you perish.

If you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will perish.

Like the nations the Lord is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the Lord your God.

Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will close the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you.

The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning Me.

The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.

Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess.

I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not live long in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan.

Lord, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did.But may those who love Himbe like the rising of the sun in its strength.And the land was peaceful 40 years.

David added, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will certainly strike him down: either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will eliminate all of Ahab’s males, both slave and free, in Israel.

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, day or night. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.”

May the day I was born perish,and the night when they said,“A boy is conceived.”

They perish at a single blast from Godand come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;they perish forever while no one notices.

Caravans turn away from their routes,go up into the desert, and perish.

Such is the destiny of all who forget God;the hope of the godless will perish.

every living thing would perish togetherand mankind would return to the dust.

Pay homage to the Son or He will be angryand you will perish in your rebellion,for His anger may ignite at any moment.All those who take refuge in Him are happy.

When my enemies retreat,they stumble and perish before You.

For the oppressed will not always be forgotten;the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever.

The Lord is King forever and ever;the nations will perish from His land.

But the wicked will perish;the Lord’s enemies, like the glory of the pastures,will fade away—they will fade away like smoke.

But despite his assets, man will not last;he is like the animals that perish.

A man with valuable possessionsbut without understandingis like the animals that perish.

Those far from You will certainly perish;You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.

It was cut down and burned up;they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Let them be put to shame and terrified forever;let them perish in disgrace.

For indeed, Lord, Your enemies—indeed, Your enemies will perish;all evildoers will be scattered.

They will perish, but You will endure;all of them will wear out like clothing.You will change them like a garment,and they will pass away.

The wicked are overthrown and perish,but the house of the righteous will stand.

A lying witness will perish,but the one who listens will speak successfully.

But both rebels and sinners will be destroyed,and those who abandon the Lord will perish.

Egyptians are men, not God;their horses are flesh, not spirit.When the Lord raises His hand to strike,the helper will stumbleand the one who is helped will fall;both will perish together.

Be sure that all who are enraged against youwill be ashamed and disgraced;those who contend with youwill become as nothing and will perish.

For the nation and the kingdomthat will not serve you will perish;those nations will be annihilated.

Therefore, this is what the Lord says:I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;fathers and sons together will stumble over them;friends and neighbors will also perish.

You are to say this to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”

for they prophesy a lie to you so that you will be removed from your land. I will banish you, and you will perish.

‘I have not sent them’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘and they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore, I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.’”

Then Johanan son of Kareah suggested to Gedaliah in private at Mizpah, “Let me go kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah. No one will know it. Why should he kill you and scatter all of Judah that has gathered to you so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

The destroyer will move against every town;not one town will escape.The valley will perish,and the plain will be annihilated,as the Lord has said.

ח KhetBecause of the Lord’s faithful lovewe do not perish,for His mercies never end.

Disaster after disaster will come,and there will be rumor after rumor.Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,but instruction will perish from the priestsand counsel from the elders.

I will cut off the ruler from Ashdod,and the one who wields the scepter from Ashkelon.I will also turn My hand against Ekron,and the remainder of the Philistines will perish.The Lord God has spoken.

The captain approached him and said, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up! Call to your god. Maybe this god will consider us, and we won’t perish.”

So they called out to the Lord: “Please, Yahweh, don’t let us perish because of this man’s life, and don’t charge us with innocent blood! For You, Yahweh, have done just as You pleased.”

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.