Hell

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

Now therefore, do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You know what you ought to do to him to bring his gray head down to Sheol in blood.”

As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.

He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’

He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’

to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.

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

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.

Sing to the LORD, O you His saints, and praise His holy name.

Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”

May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others.

But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

Do not be afraid when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.

But I call to God, and the LORD saves me.

For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!

The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

“Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”

Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

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

But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

I said, “In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol and be deprived of the remainder of my years.”

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.

You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.

They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.

Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’

They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.

But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.

If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades!

But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!

In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.

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.

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.

Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.

The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.