Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
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and He answered me.
I cried out for help in the belly of Sheol;
You heard my voice.
an arrogant man is never at rest.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
and like Death he is never satisfied.
He gathers all the nations to himself;
he collects all the peoples for himself.
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your couriers far away
and sent them down even to Sheol.
with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised,
who went down to Sheol
with their weapons of war,
whose swords were placed under their heads.
The punishment for their sins
rested on their bones,
although the terror of these warriors
was once in the land of the living.
into the deepest regions of the Pit.
and we have made an agreement with Sheol;
when the overwhelming scourge passes through,
it will not touch us,
because we have made falsehood our refuge
and have hidden behind treachery.”
and your agreement with Sheol will not last.
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
you will be trampled.
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
and opens wide its enormous jaws,
and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,
her crowds, and those who carouse in her!
I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol [to be] with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, all the well-watered trees, the choice and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the underworld. They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its alliesthey had lived in its shade among the nations.