Lexicon :: Strong's H4191 - mûṯ

When they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the spiritists who chirp and mutter,” shouldn’t a people inquire of their God?[fn] Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?

but he will judge the poor righteously

and execute justice for the oppressed of the land.

He will strike the land

with a scepter[fn] from his mouth,

and he will kill the wicked

with a command[fn] from his lips.

Then the firstborn of the poor will be well fed,

and the impoverished will lie down in safety,

but I will kill your root with hunger,

and your remnant will be slain.

The noisy city, the jubilant town,

is filled with celebration.

Your dead did not die by the sword;

they were not killed in battle.

But look: joy and gladness,

butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep and goats,

eating of meat, and drinking of wine —

“Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! ”

“wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land.[fn] There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be ​— ​a disgrace to the house of your lord.

The dead do not live;

departed spirits do not rise up.

Indeed, you have punished and destroyed them;

you have wiped out all memory of them.

Your dead will live; their bodies[fn] will rise.

Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!

For you will be covered with the morning dew,[fn]

and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

In those days Hezekiah became terminally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Set your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’ ”[fn]

Why was no one there when I came?

Why was there no one to answer when I called?

Is my arm too weak to redeem?

Or do I have no power to rescue?

Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke;

I turn the rivers into a wilderness;

their fish rot because of lack of water

and die of thirst.

Look up to the heavens,

and look at the earth beneath;

for the heavens will vanish like smoke,

the earth will wear out like a garment,

and its inhabitants will die like gnats.[fn]

But my salvation will last forever,

and my righteousness will never be shattered.

I ​— ​I am the one who comforts you.

Who are you that you should fear humans who die,

or a son of man who is given up like grass?

The prisoner[fn] is soon to be set free;

he will not die and go to the Pit,

and his food will not be lacking.

They hatch viper’s eggs

and weave spider’s webs.

Whoever eats their eggs will die;

crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

We grope along a wall like the blind;

we grope like those without eyes.

We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;

we are like the dead among those who are healthy.

“You will leave your name behind

as a curse for my chosen ones,

and the Lord GOD will kill you;

but he will give his servants another name.

“In her, a nursing infant will no longer live

only a few days,[fn]

or an old man not live out his days.

Indeed, the one who dies at a hundred years old

will be mourned as a young man,[fn]

and the one who misses a hundred years

will be considered cursed.

“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never go out, and they will be a horror to all humanity.”