30 Bible Verses about Sheol

What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

He sendeth his word, and healeth them, And delivereth them from their destructions.

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

Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth. They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:read more.
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister; Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?read more.
It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters:'so doth'sheol those that have sinned.

The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.

Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah

For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.