Quotes about Graves

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.

sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.

“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.

Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.

Meshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”