Psalms 49:14

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Psalms 49:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.

13 This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

14 Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

15 But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

16 Do not be amazed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.

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Psalms 44:11

You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

Jeremiah 12:3

But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

Romans 8:36

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 17:14

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Job 21:26

But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

Job 30:23

Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 38:10

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 38:11

I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

Job 24:19

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Job 24:20

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He subdues nations beneath us, and peoples under our feet.

Daniel 7:22

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Malachi 4:3

Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Luke 22:30

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1 Corinthians 6:2

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?

Revelation 2:26

And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.

Revelation 2:27

He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.

Revelation 20:4

Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image, and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:5

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Hosea 6:3

So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Psalms 39:11

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Job 4:21

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’