Isaiah 14:11
‘Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol,
Along with the music of your harps;
The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed]
And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’
Job 17:13-14
“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
Job 21:11-15
“They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children skip about.
Job 24:19-20
“Drought and heat consume the snow waters;
So does Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) [consume] those who have sinned.
Isaiah 21:4-5
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been
Isaiah 22:2
You [Jerusalem] who were full of noise,
A tumultuous city, a joyous and exuberant city;
Your slain were not slain [in a glorious death] with the sword,
Nor did they die in battle.
Isaiah 66:24
“Then they will go forth and look
Upon the dead bodies of the [rebellious] men
Who have transgressed against Me;
For their worm (maggot) will not die,
And their fire will not go out;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
Ezekiel 26:13
So I will silence your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.
Ezekiel 32:19-20
‘Whom [among them] do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised (the barbaric, the boorish, the crude).’
Daniel 5:1-4
Belshazzar the king [who was a descendant of Nebuchadnezzar] gave a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking his wine in the presence of the thousand [guests].
Daniel 5:25-30
“This is the
Amos 6:3-7
Do you put off the day of punishment,
Yet cause the seat of violence to come near?
Mark 9:43-48
Revelation 18:11-19
“And merchants of the earth will weep and grieve over her, because no one buys their cargo (goods, merchandise) anymore—
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Pomp
The worm
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Pomp
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been
You [Jerusalem] who were full of noise,
A tumultuous city, a joyous and exuberant city;
Your slain were not slain [in a glorious death] with the sword,
Nor did they die in battle.
“They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children skip about.
‘Whom [among them] do you surpass in beauty?
Go down and make your bed with the uncircumcised (the barbaric, the boorish, the crude).’
Do you put off the day of punishment,
Yet cause the seat of violence to come near?
The worm
“Then they will go forth and look
Upon the dead bodies of the [rebellious] men
Who have transgressed against Me;
For their worm (maggot) will not die,
And their fire will not go out;
And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,
If I make my bed in the darkness,
“Drought and heat consume the snow waters;
So does Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) [consume] those who have sinned.