Isaiah 5:14

New American Bible - revised edition

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens its mouth beyond measure; Down into it go nobility and masses, tumult and revelry.

Cross References

Psalm 49:14

This is the way of those who trust in themselves, and the end of those who take pleasure in their own mouth. Selah

Psalm 55:15

You, whose company I enjoyed, at whose side I walked in the house of God.

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them alive, like Sheol, whole, like those who go down to the pit!

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon can never be satisfied; so the eyes of mortals can never be satisfied.

Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, a barren womb, land that never gets its fill of water, and fire, which never says, “Enough!”

Isaiah 14:11

Down to Sheol your pomp is brought, the sound of your harps. Maggots are the couch beneath you, worms your blanket.”

Isaiah 14:9

Below, Sheol is all astir preparing for your coming; Awakening the shades to greet you, all the leaders of the earth; Making all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

Isaiah 21:4

My mind reels, shuddering assails me; The twilight I yearned for he has turned into dread.

Isaiah 24:8

Stilled are the cheerful timbrels, ended the shouts of the jubilant, stilled the cheerful harp.

Isaiah 30:33

For his tophet has long been ready, truly it is prepared for the king; His firepit made both deep and wide, with fire and firewood in abundance, And the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, setting it afire.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come, the day dawns. The buyer must not rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is coming upon all the throng.

Daniel 5:30

That very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was slain:

Nahum 1:10

Like a thorny thicket, they are tangled, and like drunkards, they are drunk; like dry stubble, they are utterly consumed.

Habakkuk 2:5

Indeed wealth is treacherous; a proud man does not succeed. He who opens wide his throat like Sheol, and is insatiable as death, Who gathers to himself all the nations, and collects for himself all the peoples—

Matthew 7:13

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many.

Luke 17:27

they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Luke 21:34

“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise