Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

King James Version

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Holman Bible

Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,
still healthy as they go down to the Pit.

International Standard Version

Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the Pit.

A Conservative Version

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

American Standard Version

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Amplified


Let us swallow them alive like Sheol (the place of the dead),
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit [of death];

Bible in Basic English

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

Darby Translation

let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Julia Smith Translation

We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:

King James 2000

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Lexham Expanded Bible

Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, {like those who descend to the pit}.

Modern King James verseion

let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.

NET Bible

We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

New Heart English Bible

let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

The Emphasized Bible

Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;

Webster

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

World English Bible

let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Youngs Literal Translation

We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down to the pit,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Let us swallow them up
בּלע 
Bala` 
Usage: 49

חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

as the grave
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

and whole
תּמים 
Tamiym 
Usage: 91

as those that go down
ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

References

Hastings

Pit

Context Readings

Advice To The Young

11 If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; 12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
13 we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;

Cross References

Psalm 28:1

To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Numbers 16:30-33

But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."

Numbers 26:10

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a warning.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, "Aha, our heart's desire!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."

Psalm 56:1-2

Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;

Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

Jeremiah 51:34

"Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: "We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!"

Micah 3:2-3

you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,

Romans 3:13

"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."

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