Psalm 49:14

New International Reader's Version

They are like sheep and will end up in the grave. Death will be their shepherd. But when honest people come to power, a new day will dawn. The bodies of sinners will waste away in the grave. They will end up far away from their princely houses.

Cross References

Job 21:13

Those who are evil spend their years living well. They go down to their graves in peace.

Job 21:26

Side by side they lie in the dust of death. The worms in their graves cover all of them.

Job 30:23

I know that you will bring me down to death. That’s what you have appointed for everyone.

Job 4:21

Like a tent that falls down, they get weak. They die because they didn’t follow God’s wisdom.’ ”

Psalm 30:5

His anger lasts for only a moment. But his favor lasts for a person’s whole life. Weeping can stay for the night. But joy comes in the morning.

Psalm 39:11

You correct and punish people for their sin. Then, just as a moth eats cloth, you destroy their wealth. No one lasts any longer than a breath.

Psalm 44:11

You handed us over to be eaten up like sheep. You have scattered us among the nations.

Psalm 47:3

He brought nations under our control. He made them fall under us.

Psalm 9:17

Sinful people go down to the place of the dead. So do all the nations that forget God.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Remember your Creator before you return to the dust you came from. Remember him before your spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Jeremiah 12:3

Lord, you know me and see me. You test my thoughts about you. Drag those people off like sheep to be killed! Set them apart for the day of their death!

Daniel 7:18

But the holy people of the Most High God will receive the kingdom. They will possess it forever. It will belong to them for ever and ever.’

Daniel 7:22

But then the Eternal God came. He decided in favor of his holy people. So the time came when the kingdom was given to them.

Hosea 6:3

Let’s recognize him as the Lord. Let’s keep trying to know him. You can be sure the sun will rise. And you can be just as sure the Lord will appear. He will come to renew us like the winter rains. He will be like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Malachi 4:3

Then you will stomp on sinful people. They will be like ashes under your feet. That will happen on the day I judge,” says the Lord.

Luke 22:30

Then you will eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. And you will sit on thrones, judging the 12 tribes of Israel.

Romans 8:36

It is written, “Because of you, we face death all day long. We are considered as sheep to be killed.” (Psalm 44:22)

1 Corinthians 6:2

Or don’t you know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? Since this is true, aren’t you able to judge small cases?