30 Bible Verses about Sheol
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What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? 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 into the grave to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.
And if you take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
And now, do not hold him guiltless. For you are a wise man, and you know what you ought to do to him. But bring his gray head down to the grave with blood.
let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit;
The grave; and the barren womb, the earth not filled with water, and the fire, have not said, Enough.
So says the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to the grave, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I held back its floods, and the great waters were held back. And I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted because of him. I made the nations shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with those who go down in the Pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth. They also went down into hell with him to those who are slain with the sword, even his arm, who lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
and he said, I cried to Jehovah from my distress. And He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help, and You heard my voice.
Shall Your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in ruin? Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest with kings and wise men of the earth, who built ruins for themselves, or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;read more.
or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest; the prisoners are at rest together; they hear not the voice of the slave driver. The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
As the cloud falls and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness; I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister! And where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?read more.
They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our descent together is in the dust.
Hell from below is moved for you, to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, all the he-goats of the earth. It has raised from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All of them shall speak and say to you, Are you also as weak as we? Are you like us? Your pride is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your harps. The maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
For the grave cannot praise You, death can not rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them. And they perished from among the congregation.
The wicked shall be turned into hell, all the nations that forget God.
Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah; for I have called on You; Let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in the grave.
Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign for them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form is for rotting; the grave is their home.
Let desolation take hold on them, and let them go down alive into hell; for evils are among them in their dwellings.
Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the Pit.
Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?
For You will not leave My soul in hell; You will not allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
O Jehovah, You have brought up my soul from the grave; You have kept me alive, so that I should not go down to the Pit.
