'Alive' in the Bible

Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.

To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,