Isaiah 5:14

New Century Version

So the place of the dead wants more and more people, and it opens wide its mouth. Jerusalem’s important people and common people will go down into it, with their happy and noisy ones.

Cross References

Psalm 49:14

Like sheep, they must die, and death will be their shepherd. Honest people will rule over them in the morning, and their bodies will rot in a grave far from home.

Psalm 55:15

Let death take away my enemies. Let them die while they are still young because evil lives with them.

Proverbs 1:12

Let’s swallow them alive, as death does; let’s swallow them whole, as the grave does.

Proverbs 27:20

People will never stop dying and being destroyed, and they will never stop wanting more than they have.

Proverbs 30:16

the cemetery, the childless mother, the land that never gets enough rain, and fire that never says, ‘I’ve had enough!’

Isaiah 14:11

Your pride has been sent down to the place of the dead. The music from your harps goes with it. Flies are spread out like your bed beneath you, and worms cover your body like a blanket.

Isaiah 14:9

The place of the dead is excited to meet you when you come. It wakes the spirits of the dead, the leaders of the world. It makes kings of all nations stand up from their thrones to greet you.

Isaiah 21:4

I am worried, and I am shaking with fear. My pleasant evening has become a night of fear.

Isaiah 24:8

The happy music of the tambourines will end. The happy sounds of wild parties will stop. The joyful music from the harps will end.

Isaiah 30:33

Topheth has been made ready for a long time; it is ready for the king. It was made deep and wide with much wood and fire. And the Lord’s breath will come like a stream of burning sulfur and set it on fire.

Ezekiel 7:12

The time has come; the day has arrived. Don’t let the buyer be happy or the seller be sad, because my burning anger is against the whole crowd.

Daniel 5:30

That very same night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonian people, was killed.

Nahum 1:10

Those people will be like tangled thorns or like people drunk from their wine; they will be burned up quickly like dry weeds.

Habakkuk 2:5

“Just as wine can trick a person, those who are too proud will not last, because their desire is like a grave’s desire for death, and like death they always want more. They gather other nations for themselves and collect for themselves all the countries.

Matthew 7:13

“Enter through the narrow gate. The gate is wide and the road is wide that leads to hell, and many people enter through that gate.

Luke 17:27

People were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving their children to be married until the day Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed them all.

Luke 21:34

“Be careful not to spend your time feasting, drinking, or worrying about worldly things. If you do, that day might come on you suddenly,