Verse 21

before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no 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 of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, 12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? 12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?'
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.