Psalms 89:48

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 49:15 : 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
  • Heb 11:5 : 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
  • Ps 22:29 : 29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
  • Ps 49:7-9 : 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
  • Eccl 3:19-20 : 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
  • John 8:51 : 51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
  • Acts 2:27 : 27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  • 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 89:46-47
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    46How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

    47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

  • Job 14:12-14
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    12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

    13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  • 15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

  • Ps 49:8-9
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    8(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

    9That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

  • 10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

  • Ps 88:10-11
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    10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

    11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

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    5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

  • Isa 38:10-11
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    10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • 49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

    5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

  • 12Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.

  • 6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

  • 28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

  • 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • 2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

    4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

  • Ps 49:17-19
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    17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

    18Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Eccl 8:7-8
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    7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

    8There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

  • 17I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

  • Job 30:23-24
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    23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

    24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

  • 16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

  • 12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • 12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

  • 21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • 18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

  • 22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Ps 88:3-5
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    3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

    4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

    5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

  • 5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Job 7:16-17
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    16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

    17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

  • 22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

  • 10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.