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 cause;
12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
13 We will find all kinds of precious wealth,
We will fill our houses with spoil;



Cross References

Psalm 28:1

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Psalm 124:3

Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their anger was kindled against us;

Numbers 16:30-33

But if the Lord brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord.”

Numbers 26:10

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

Psalm 5:9

There is nothing reliable in what they say;
Their inward part is destruction itself.
Their throat is an open grave;
They flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, our desire!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

Psalm 56:1-2

For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;
Fighting all day long he oppresses me.

Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven and save me;
He reproaches him who tramples upon me. Selah.
God will send forth His lovingkindness and His truth.

Psalm 143:7

Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me,
He has set me down like an empty vessel;
He has swallowed me like a monster,
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
He has washed me away.

Lamentations 2:5

The Lord has become like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the day for which we waited;
We have reached it, we have seen it.”

Micah 3:2-3

“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear off their skin from them
And their flesh from their bones,

Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open grave,
With their tongues they keep deceiving,”
The poison of asps is under their lips”;

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