30 Bible Verses about Sheol

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.

Then came all his sons and all his daughters to comfort him. And he would not be comforted, but said, "I will go down into the grave unto my son, mourning." And thus his father wept for him.

If ye shall take this also away from me and some misfortune happen upon him, then shall ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave.'

But pardon thou him not. Thou art a man of wisdom and shalt know what to do to him, see therefore that thou bring his hoar head to the grave with blood."

The pains of hell came about me; the snares of death overtook me. {TYNDALE: The cords of hell have compassed me about, and the snares of death have overtaken me.}

He sent his word, and healed them; and they were saved from their destruction.

Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.

There be three things that are never satisfied, and the fourth sayeth never, "Hoo." The hell, a woman's womb, and the earth hath never water enough. As for fire, it sayeth never, "Hoo."

Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: In the day when he goeth down to the grave, I will cause a lamentation to be made, I will cover the deep upon him, I will staunch his floods, and the great waters shall be restrained. I shall cause Lebanon to be sorrowful for his sake, and all the trees of the field shall be smitten. I will make the Heathen shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell, with them that descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, with all the chosen and best trees of Lebanon, yea, and all they that are planted upon the waters, shall mourn with him also in the lower habitations: for they shall go down to hell with him, unto them that be slain with the sword, which dwelt afore under the shadow of his arm among the Heathen.

And he said, "In my tribulation I called unto the LORD, and he answered me: out of the belly of hell I cried, and thou heardest my voice.

May thy loving-kindness be showed in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? Or thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?

Then should I now have lain still; I should have slept, and been at rest, like as the kings and lords of the earth, which build themselves special places: As the princes that have great substance of gold, and their houses full of silver.read more.
O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light. There, must the wicked cease from their tyranny, there such as are overlaboured be at rest. There, are those let out free which have been in prison, so that they hear no more the voice of the oppressor. There, are small and great; the bondman, and he that is free from his master.

For if thou fasten thine eyes upon me, I come to naught like as a cloud is consumed and vanisheth away. Even so, he that goeth down to hell, cometh no more up,

Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark. I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister. What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for?read more.
All that I have, shall go down into the pit, and lie with me in the dust."

For in death no man remembereth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the hell?

Hell also trembleth at thy coming; all mighty men and princes of the earth step forth before thee. All kings of the earth stand up from their seats, that they may all - one after another - sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? Art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering.

For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth:

And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.

The LORD killeth and maketh alive; bringeth down to hell and fetcheth up again.

O that they, for the wickedness which they have done, were drawn to the hell, sooner than snow melteth at the heat.

The wicked must be turned unto hell, and all the people that forget God.

Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and put to silence in the grave.

They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling.

Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.

Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

For why? Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

Thou, LORD, hast brought my soul out of hell: thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit.

But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah.

For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell.