16 Bible Verses about Maggots
Most Relevant Verses
‘Your pomp and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’
You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.
But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.
But they did not listen to Moses, and some left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.
So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and it did not become foul nor was there any worm in it.
“My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt,
My skin hardens and runs.
If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
“A mother will forget him;
The worm feeds sweetly till he is no longer remembered.
And wickedness will be broken like a tree.
“Then they will go forth and look
On the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their worm will not die
And their fire will not be quenched;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
“Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel;
I will help you,” declares the Lord, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
But I am a worm and not a man,
A reproach of men and despised by the people.
