It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Psalm 16:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For you do not give me up to Sheol or let your faithful one see the Pit. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the place of the dead), neither will You suffer Your holy one [Holy One] to see corruption. [Acts 13:35.] American Standard Version (1901) For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. Common English Bible because you won’t abandon my life to the grave; you won’t let your faithful follower see the pit. Catholic Public Domain Version They have concealed their fatness; their mouth has been speaking arrogantly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version they have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly. |
It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied.
Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure; the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude go down, her throng and all who exult in her.
“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
“All the days that they separate themselves to the Lord they shall not go near a corpse.
The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God.
In Hades, where he was being tormented, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side.
“Leave us alone! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.
For a fire is kindled by my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the earth and its increase and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
and the Living One. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and all were judged according to what they had done.