Psalm 89:48

Perplexity About God's Promises

⁴⁷ Remember what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!
⁴⁸ What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
⁴⁹ Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord,
Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

Live Forever

Power of the Grave

Power Of Sheol

Hades

No

Selah

Sheol

Psalm 49:15

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,
For He will receive me. Selah.

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he would not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.

Job 30:23

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.

Psalm 22:29

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

Psalm 49:7-9

No man can by any means redeem his brother
Or give to God a ransom for him—

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

John 8:51

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

Acts 2:27

Because You will not abandon my soul to Hades,
Nor allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

2 Corinthians 4:14

knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,