Psalm 89:48

Perplexity About God's Promises

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Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
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What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah. ⁴⁹
O Lord, where are Your former lovingkindnesses [so abundant in the days of David and Solomon],
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 life from the power of Sheol,
For He will receive me. Selah.

Hebrews 11:5

By faith [that pleased God] Enoch was caught up and taken to heaven so that he would not have a glimpse of death; and he was not found because God had taken him; for even before he was taken [to heaven], he received the testimony [still on record] that he had walked with God and pleased Him.

Job 30:23

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

Psalm 22:29

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

Psalm 49:7-9

None of them can by any means redeem [either himself or] his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for him—

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

For the [earthly] fate of the sons of men and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no preeminence or advantage for man [in and of himself] over an animal, for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man who has power and authority over the wind to restrain the wind,
Nor does he have authority over the day of death;
There is no discharge [from service] during time of war,
And evil will not rescue those who [actively seek to] practice it.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they no longer have a reward [here], for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

then the dust [out of which God made man’s body] will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

John 8:51

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, if anyone keeps My word [by living in accordance with My message] he will indeed never, ever see and experience death.”

Acts 2:27

‘For You will not forsake me and abandon my soul to Hades (the realm of the dead),
Nor let Your Holy One undergo decay [after death].

2 Corinthians 4:14

knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and will present us [along] with you in His presence.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment,