Psalms 89:48

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Psalms 89:46–50 · Berean Standard Bible

46 How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

48 What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

49 Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

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Psalms 49:7

No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.

Psalms 49:8

For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,

Psalms 49:9

that he should live on forever and not see decay.

Job 30:23

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

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Ecclesiastes 3:20

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

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

Hebrews 9:27

Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

John 8:51

Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

Psalms 49:15

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

Acts 2:27

because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

2 Corinthians 4:14

knowing that the One who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in His presence.