Psalm 89:48 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Who can live and never see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

What man can live and shall not see death, or can deliver himself from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the place of the dead)? Selah [pause, and calmly consider that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah

Common English Bible

Who lives their life without seeing death? Who is ever rescued from the grip of the grave? Selah

Psalm 89:48 Cross References

Job 30:23

I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

Psalm 119:84

How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?

Psalm 22:29

To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for him.

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 49:15

But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.

John 8:51

Very truly, I tell you, whoever keeps my word will never see death.”

Acts 2:27

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or let your Holy One experience corruption.

2 Corinthians 4:14

because we know that the one who raised Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and will present us with you in his presence.

Hebrews 11:5

By faith Enoch was taken so that he did not experience death, and “he was not found, because God had taken him.” For it was attested before he was taken away that “he had pleased God.”

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,