Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible




The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it.



The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.


“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be no one to rescue [you].


And they forgot His [incredible] works
And His miraculous wonders that He had shown them.


Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Therefore you plant lovely plants
And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,



The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.


Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore bear now [the consequences of] your lewdness and prostitution.’”

Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation [O Judah] and have not been mindful of the Rock of your strength, your Stronghold -- "therefore, you have planted pleasant nursery grounds and plantings [to Adonis, pots of quickly withered flowers used to set by their doors or in the courts of temples], and have set [the grounds] with vine slips of a strange [God], And in the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you make your seed to blossom, yet [promising as it is] the harvest shall be a heap of ruins and flee away in the day of expected possession and of desperate sorrow and sickening, incurable pain.


The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.


For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces [and pagan temples],
And Judah has built many fortified cities;
But I will send a fire upon their cities so that it may consume their palaces and fortresses.

While it is yet green, in flower, and not cut down, it withers before any other herb [when without water]. So are the ways of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless shall perish.



“Can a virgin forget [to wear] her ornaments,
Or a bride her attire [that identifies her as a married woman]?
Yet My people have forgotten Me
Days without number.


“So are the paths of all who forget God;
And the hope of the godless will perish,


The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.


“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be no one to rescue [you].


Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Therefore you plant lovely plants
And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,


For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces [and pagan temples],
And Judah has built many fortified cities;
But I will send a fire upon their cities so that it may consume their palaces and fortresses.



The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.


“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be no one to rescue [you].


And they forgot His [incredible] works
And His miraculous wonders that He had shown them.


Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Therefore you plant lovely plants
And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,



If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, You are there.


“Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God,
And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].



You shall swat him with the reed-like rod
And rescue his life from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).


The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.


The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.


Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the abyss, the place of eternal punishment) lie open before the Lord
How much more the hearts and inner motives of the children of men.


Sheol (the place of the dead) and Abaddon (the underworld) are never satisfied;
Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.


“The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.


“His wisdom is as high as the heights of heaven. What can you do?
It is deeper than Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). What can you know?


The cords of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.


Her feet go down to death;
Her steps take hold of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),



But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,
And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).


The [chosen] path of life leads upward for the wise,
That he may keep away from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) below.



The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.



The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.



The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.


“For the nation or the kingdom which will not serve you [Jerusalem] shall perish,
And the nations [that refuse to serve] shall be utterly ruined.



The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.


If your right eye makes you stumble and leads you to sin, tear it out and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.


The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.

But I will point out to you whom you should fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority and power to hurl [you] into hell; yes, I say to you, [stand in great awe of God and] fear Him!

In Hades (the realm of the dead), being in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom (paradise).