Sheol (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.

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.

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

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?

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.