Quotes About Decay

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

that he should live on forever and not see decay.

Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.

A wife of noble character is her husbandís crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumerís oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.

For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.

I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

Concerning Edom, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ëI will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.í