Quotes about Death
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
— Isaiah 22:2
The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
— Isaiah 26:14
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