30 Bible Verses about Sheol
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No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)
All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. "No," he said, "I will go to the grave mourning my son." So Joseph's father wept for him.
If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.'
But now don't treat him as if he were innocent. You are a wise man and you know how to handle him; make sure he has a bloody death."
He sent them an assuring word and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.
We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
the grave, the barren womb, land that is not satisfied with water, and fire that never says, "Enough!"
"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it. I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below. Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.
and said, "I called out to the Lord from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer.
Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead? Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?
For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate, or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.read more.
Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light? There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.
If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,' where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?read more.
Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?"
Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones. All of them respond to you, saying: 'You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us! Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.
Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.
They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.
The drought as well as the heat carry away the melted snow; so the grave takes away those who have sinned.
The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,
O Lord, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!
They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.
May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.
But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the pit.
"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
O Lord, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.
But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety. (Selah)
For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.
