Quotes about Death
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
— Isaiah 28:15
Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
— Isaiah 28:18
Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
— Isaiah 34:3
In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
— Isaiah 38:1
I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”
— Isaiah 38:10
For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
— Isaiah 38:18
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
— Isaiah 53:9
The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
— Isaiah 57:1
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.
— Isaiah 57:2
Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.
— Jeremiah 5:16
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
— Jeremiah 7:32
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
— Jeremiah 8:3