28 Bible Verses about Sheol

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.

If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.

The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.

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

The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.

This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him. I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones. And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations

In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace, With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves; Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;read more.
Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light. There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest. There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears. The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark; If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?read more.
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats. They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are? Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)