Isaiah 5:14

God's Word

That is why the grave’s appetite increases. It opens its mouth very wide so that honored people and common people will go down into it. Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it.

Cross References

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep, they are driven to hell with death as their shepherd. (Decent people will rule them in the morning.) Their forms will decay in the grave, far away from their comfortable homes.

Psalm 55:15

Let death suddenly take ⌞wicked people⌟! Let them go into the grave while they are still alive, because evil lives in their homes as well as in their hearts.

Proverbs 1:12

We’ll swallow them alive like the grave, like those in good health who go into the pit.

Proverbs 27:20

Hell and decay are never satisfied, and a person’s eyes are never satisfied.

Proverbs 30:16

the grave, a barren womb, a land that never gets enough water, a fire that does not say, “Enough!”

Isaiah 14:11

Your pride has been brought down to Sheol along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out ⌞like a bed⌟ under you, and worms cover you.

Isaiah 14:9

Sheol below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up the ghosts of the dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones.

Isaiah 21:4

I’m confused. I’m shaking with terror. The twilight hours I longed for make me tremble.

Isaiah 24:8

Joyful tambourine music stops. Noisy celebrations cease. Joyful harp music stops.

Isaiah 30:33

Topheth was prepared long ago. It was made ready for the king. It was made deep and wide and piled high with plenty of burning logs. The Lord’s breath will be like a flood of burning sulfur, setting it on fire.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time is coming. The day is near. Buyers will not rejoice, and sellers will not mourn, because ⌞my⌟ fury will be against the whole crowd.

Daniel 5:30

That night King Belshazzar of Babylon was killed.

Nahum 1:10

⌞The people of Nineveh will be⌟ like tangled thorns and like people drunk on their own drink. They will be completely burned up like very dry straw.

Habakkuk 2:5

Also because wine is treacherous he is arrogant and never rests. He has a large appetite like the grave. He is like death—never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself. He collects all the people to himself.

Matthew 7:13

“Enter through the narrow gate because the gate and road that lead to destruction are wide. Many enter through the wide gate.

Luke 17:27

People were eating, drinking, and getting married until the day that Noah went into the ship. Then the flood destroyed all of them.

Luke 21:34

“Make sure that you don’t become drunk, hung over, and worried about life. Then that day could suddenly catch you by surprise