30 Bible Verses about Sheol
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Who is the man that shall live, and not see death? That can deliver his soul from the hand of hades. Selah.
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to console him but he refused to be consoled, and said - Surely I will go down unto my son mourning to hades! And his father wept for him.
And I have never seen him since. As surely as ye take, this one also, away from before my face and there befall him any mischief, so surely shall ye bring down my grey hairs, with misfortune to hades.
Now, therefore do not hold him guiltless, for, a wise man, thou art, and wilt know how thou oughtest to deal with him, and wilt suffer his grey hairs to go down with blood, to hades.
The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,
He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth them from their graves.
Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;
Hades, and barrenness, - A land not satisfied with water, and fire, that saith not, Enough!
Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, In the day when he descended into hades, I caused a mourning. I covered over him the roaring deep, And restrained the currents thereof And stayed were the mighty waters, So caused I gloom over him unto Lebanon, And all the trees of the field for him were covered with a shroud. At the sound of his fall, I made nations tremble, When I caused him to descend into hades, with them who descend into the pit, - Then were grieved in the earth below-All the trees of Eden, The choicest and best of Lebanon All who had drunk the waters. Even they, with him descended into hades. Among them who were thrust through with the sword,- Even his seed who dwelt in his shade in the midst of the nations.
and said - I cried - out of my distress - unto Yahweh, and he answered me, - Out of the belly of hades, called I, Thou didst hear my voice.
Shall Thy lovingkindness be recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness, in destruction? Shall any wonder of thine, be known in the dark? Or, thy righteousness, in the land of forgetfulness?
Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest: With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids: Or with rulers possessing, gold, - Who had filled their houses with silver:read more.
Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light: There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest: At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver: Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.
A cloud faileth, and is gone, So, he that descendeth to hades, shall not come up:
If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch; To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm. Where then would be my hope? And, as for my blessedness, who should see it!read more.
With me to hades, would they go down, If, wholly - into the dust, is the descent!
For, in death, is no remembrance of thee, - In hades, who shall give thanks unto thee?
Hades beneath, is excited about thee To meet thine arrival, - Rousing up, for thee Shades, All the he-goats of earth! Maketh rise from their thrones, All the kings of the nations. All of them, answer, and say to thee, - Thou too, made strengthless, as we! Unto us, art thou like! Brought down to Hades, thy pride. The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverlet - worms!
For, hades, cannot praise thee Nor, death, celebrate thee, - They who go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness.
so, they, and all that pertained unto them, went down, alive unto hades, - and the earth, closed pen them, and they perished out of the midst of the convocation.
Yahweh, doth kill, and make alive, - Taketh down to hades, and bringeth up:
O Yahweh! let me not be ashamed, For I have called upon thee, Let the lawless ha ashamed, go down in silence to hades!
Like sheep - into hades, are they driven, Death shall shepherd them, - And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, Even their form, is to decay, Hades, is all that remaineth of a habitation for him.
Desolations on them! Let them go down into hades alive, For, wicked doings, are at home within them.
Howbeit, to Hades, shalt thou be brought down, - To the Recesses of the Pit!
Oh that, in hades, thou wouldst hide me! that thou wouldst keep me secret, until the turn of thine anger, that thou wouldst set for me a fixed time, and remember me:
For thou wilt not abandon my soul to hades, neither wilt thou suffer thy man of lovingkindness, to see corruption:
O Yahweh! thou hast lifted, out of hades, my soul, Thou hast brought me back to life, from among those who were going down to the pit.
But, God, will redeem my soul, out of the hand of hades, For he will take me. Selah.
For, thy lovingkindness, is great towards me, And thou hast rescued my soul from Hades beneath.
