30 Bible Verses about Sheol

Can man go on living and never see death? Who can set himself free from the power of the grave?

All his sons and daughters came to comfort him. However, he refused to be comforted. He said: I will go down to the grave still mourning for my son. So he continued to mourn for his son Joseph.

If you take this one from me now and something happens to him, the sorrow you would cause me would kill me, as old as I am.'

However you must not let him go unpunished. You know what to do. You must make sure he is put to death.

The cords of the grave surrounded me. The snares of death confronted me.

He sent his message and healed them. He rescued them from the grave.

Let us swallow them alive and whole just as the grave does, and just as the dead go into the pit.

The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that does not say: It is enough.

The Lord Jehovah says: 'On the day when it went down to the grave I caused cries of sorrow. I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. Its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it. All the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to the grave with those who go down to the pit. All the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath. They also went down with it to the grave to those who were slain by the sword. Those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.'

He said: I called to Jehovah because of my affliction. And he answered me! Out of the belly of the grave I cried and you heard my voice.

Will anyone tell about your loving kindness in the grave or about your faithfulness after they parish? Will anyone know about your miracles in that dark place or about your righteousness (mercy) in the place of destruction?

For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be asleep and at rest. I would be with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins. I would be with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.read more.
Why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day? There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver's shout. The small and the great are there. The slave is freed from his master.

Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes; those who die will not come back.

Should I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness? If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister! Where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me?read more.
Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?

No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave?

The grave below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up those who are dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones. All of them will greet you: 'You also have become weak like us! You have become like one of us! Your pride has been brought down to the grave along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out like a bed under you, and worms cover you.'

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

They went down alive to their graves with everything that belonged to them. The ground covered them. They disappeared from the assembly.

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to the grave and brings up.

Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters! In the same way the grave takes those who have sinned.

The grave is the destiny of all the wicked, of all those who reject God.

O Jehovah, I have called on you, so do not let me be put to shame. Let wicked people be put to shame. Let them be silent in the grave.

Like sheep, they are laid in the grave. Death will shepherd them. The upright will rule them in the morning. Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes.

Let death suddenly take them! Let them go into the grave while they are still alive, for evil lives in their homes and within them.

But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit.

If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!

You do not abandon me to the grave or allow your holy one to decay.

O Jehovah, you brought me up from the grave. You kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

But God will redeem me (buy me back) from the power of the grave because he will receive me.

Your loving kindness toward me is great. You have rescued me from the depths of the grave.