Psalms 49:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

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  • Mal 4:3 : 3 And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.
  • 1 Cor 6:2 : 2 Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
  • Dan 7:22 : 22 Till he came, who was very old, and the decision was made and the authority was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came when the saints took the kingdom.
  • Luke 22:30 : 30 So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Job 24:19-20 : 19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld. 20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
  • Ps 44:11 : 11 You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.
  • Ps 47:3 : 3 He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Isa 38:10-11 : 10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me. 11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
  • Dan 7:18 : 18 But the saints of the Most High will take the kingdom, and it will be theirs for ever, even for ever and ever.
  • Job 4:21 : 21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
  • Job 21:13 : 13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
  • Job 21:26 : 26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
  • Rom 8:36 : 36 As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.
  • Rev 2:26-27 : 26 He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations, 27 And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:
  • Rev 20:4-5 : 4 And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first coming back from the dead.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
  • Ps 30:5 : 5 For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

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  • Job 21:26
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    26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

  • Ps 49:11-13
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    11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

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  • Job 4:20-21
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    20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

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  • Ps 55:15
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    15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Job 21:32
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    32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

  • Job 24:17
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    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

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    19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • Ps 141:7
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    7 Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • Job 21:13
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    13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.

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  • Prov 1:12
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    27 And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.

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    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Ps 37:2
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    2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Jer 16:4
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    4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

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    11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

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    17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

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    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

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    4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

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    14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.

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    5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

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    9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

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    19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • Ezek 31:17
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    17 And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations

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    34 Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.

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    14 In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.

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    2 They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.

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    22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

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    2 They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.

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    9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

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    9 So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

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    23 Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

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    8 They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

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    4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.