Isaiah 5:14

Sheol opens wide to swallow the multitudes, their splendor, and their revelers. It pictures death consuming a proud and indulgent people without limit.

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• Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
• Prov 30:16Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
• Hab 2:5and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
• Ps 55:15Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
• Prov 27:20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
• Isa 30:33For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
• Rev 20:13–15The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.
• Matt 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
• Isa 14:9Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
• Num 16:30–34But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
• Luke 17:27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
• Prov 1:12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
• Ezek 32:18–30“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
• Luke 12:19–20Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
• Ps 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
• Isa 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
• Acts 12:21–23On the appointed day, Herod donned his royal robes, sat on his throne, and addressed the people.
• Luke 16:20–23And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
• 1 Sam 25:36–38When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
• Dan 5:3–6Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
• 2 Sam 13:28–29Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
• Dan 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
• Nah 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

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