45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

"Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day.

It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock."

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'

"Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'"

because he did not kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD."

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

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.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?read more.
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

"Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?"

"The LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death. Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your sting? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.