Verse 21

Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more. 9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return. 10 He will never come back to his house; his place will know him no more.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he? 11 As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep. 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me! 14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah. 12 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, "I will not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on humanity or be with those who dwell in the world of the dead."
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and deep darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept, then I would be at rest.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from Him.