It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
Psalm 16:10 - English Standard Version 2016 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 lie open before the Lord; how much more the hearts of the children of man!
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
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, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.
“Seventy weeks are decreed about 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 cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
“All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body.
And the angel answered 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 called holy—the Son of God.
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
“Ha! 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 is it 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 it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.