Isaiah 5:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Therefore Sheol (the unseen state, the realm of the dead) has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth without measure; and [Jerusalem's] nobility and her multitude and her pomp and tumult and [the drunken reveler] who exults in her descend into it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Therefore, the grave opens wide its jaws, opens its mouth beyond all bounds, and the splendid multitudes will go down, with all their uproar and cheering.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ For this reason, Hell has expanded its soul, and has opened its mouth without any limits. And their strong ones, and their people, and their exalted and glorious ones will descend into it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul and opened her mouth without any bounds: and their strong ones and their people and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

Isaiah 5:14 Cross References

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; straight to the grave they descend, and their form shall waste away; Sheol shall be their home.

Psalm 55:15

Let death come upon them; let them go down alive to Sheol, for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

Proverbs 1:12

like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied.

Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, the barren womb, the earth ever-thirsty for water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

Isaiah 14:11

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.

Isaiah 14:9

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.

Isaiah 21:4

My mind reels; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

Isaiah 24:8

The mirth of the timbrels is stilled; the noise of the jubilant has ceased; the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

Isaiah 30:33

For his burning place has long been prepared, also for the king; its pyre is made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day draws near; let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.

Nahum 1:10

Like thorns they are entangled; like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.

Habakkuk 2:5

Moreover, wealth is treacherous; the arrogant do not endure. They open their throats wide as Sheol; like Death they never have enough. They gather all nations for themselves and collect all peoples as their own.

Matthew 7:13

“Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it.

Luke 17:27

They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them.

Luke 21:34

“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,