Aionian Verses
And all his sons and his daughters gathered themselves together, and came to comfort him; but he would not be comforted, saying, I will go down to my son mourning to Hades; and his father wept for him. (Sheol )
And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I must go down unto my son, mourning, into the grave; thus his father wept for him. (Sheol )
But he said, My son shall not go down with you, because his brother is dead, and he only has been left; and [suppose] it shall come to pass that he is afflicted by the way by which you go, then you shall bring down my old age with sorrow to Hades. (Sheol )
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left: and if mischief befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. (Sheol )
If then you take this one also from my presence, and an affliction happen to him by the way, then shall you bring down my old age with sorrow to the grave. (Sheol )
And if ye take this one also from me, and mischief befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. (Sheol )
—it shall even come to pass, when he sees the boy is not with us, [that] he will die, and your servants will bring down the old age of your servant, and our father, with sorrow to the grave. (Sheol )
It will come to pass, that when he seeth that the lad is not with us, he will die: and thy servants would thus bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. (Sheol )
But if the Lord shall show by a wonder, and the earth shall open her mouth and swallow them up, and their houses, and their tents, and all that belongs to them, and they shall go down alive into Hades, then you shall know that these men have provoked the Lord. (Sheol )
But if the Lord do create a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertaineth unto them, and they go down alive into the pit: then shall ye understand that these men have provoked the Lord. (Sheol )
And they went down and all that they had, alive into Hades; and the ground covered them, and they perished from the midst of the congregation. (Sheol )
And they went down, they, and all they that appertained to them, alive into the pit; and the earth closed over them, and they disappeared from the midst of the congregation. (Sheol )
For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol )
For a fire is kindled in my anger, and it burneth unto the lowest deep; and it consumeth the earth with her products, and it setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains. (Sheol )
The Lord kills and makes alive; he brings down to the grave, and brings up. (Sheol )
The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. (Sheol )
the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me. (Sheol )
The bonds of hell encircled me, the snares of death seized on me: (Sheol )
Therefore you shall deal [with him] according to your wisdom, and you shall not bring down his grey hairs in peace to the grave. (Sheol )
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoary head go down in peace to the grave. (Sheol )
But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave. (Sheol )
But now leave him not unpunished; for thou art a wise man; know then what thou oughtest to do unto him, and bring thou down his hoary head with blood to the grave. (Sheol )
[I am] as a cloud that is cleared away from the sky: for if a man go down to the grave, he shall not come up again: (Sheol )
As the cloud vanisheth and passeth away: so will he that goeth down to the nether world not come up again. (Sheol )
Heaven [is] high; and what will you do? and there are deeper things than those in hell; what do you know? (Sheol )
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou effect? it is deeper than the nether world; what canst thou know? (Sheol )
For oh that you had kept me in the grave, and had hidden me until your wrath should cease, and you should set me a time in which you would remember me! (Sheol )
Oh who would grant that thou mightest hide me in the nether world, that thou mightest conceal me, until thy wrath be appeased, that thou mightest set for me a fixed time, and remember me then! (Sheol )
For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness. (Sheol )
When I hope for the nether world as my house; in the darkness have I spread my couch; (Sheol )
Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb? (Sheol )
Let then my limbs sink down to the nether world: truly in the dust alone there is rest for all. (Sheol )
And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. (Sheol )
They wear out their days in happiness, and in a moment they go down to the nether world. (Sheol )
[Let them be] withered upon the earth; for they have plundered the sheaves of the fatherless. (Sheol )
Drought and heat speedily consume the snow-waters: so doth the grave those who have sinned. (Sheol )
Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. (Sheol )
Naked is the nether world before him, and there is no covering for the place of corruption. (Sheol )
For in death no man remembers you: and who will give you thanks in Hades? (Sheol )
For in death men do not remember thee: in the nether world, who shall give thee thanks? (Sheol )
Let sinners be driven away into Hades, [even] all the nations that forget God. (Sheol )
The wicked shall return into hell, all the nations that are forgetful of God. (Sheol )
because you will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption. (Sheol )
For thou wilt not abandon my soul to the grave: thou wilt not suffer thy pious [servant] to see corruption. (Sheol )
The pangs of hell came round about me: the snares of death prevented me. (Sheol )
The bonds of hell encircled me: the snares of death seized on me. (Sheol )
O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from [amongst] them that go down to the pit. (Sheol )
O Lord, thou hast brought up from the nether world my soul: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. (Sheol )
O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon you: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades. (Sheol )
O Lord, let me not be put to shame; for I have called on thee: let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent, [passing] to the nether world. (Sheol )
They have laid [them] as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory. (Sheol )
Like flocks are they thrust into the nether world; death will feed them; but the upright shall have dominion over them in that morning, and their form wasteth away in the nether world, [taken away] from their own dwelling. (Sheol )
But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. (Pause) (Sheol )
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the nether world; for he will take me away. (Selah) (Sheol )
Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them. (Sheol )
Let him dispense death over them; let them go down alive into the nether world; for evil is in their dwelling, in the midst of them. (Sheol )
For your mercy is great towards me; and you have delivered my soul from the lowest hell. (Sheol )
For thy kindness is great toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the grave of the lower world. (Sheol )
For my soul is filled with troubles, and my life has drawn near to Hades. (Sheol )
For my soul is sated with troubles; and my life draweth nigh unto the nether world. (Sheol )
What man is there who shall live, and not see death? shall [any one] deliver his soul from the hand of Hades? (Pause) (Sheol )
What man is there that can live, and shall not see death? that can deliver his soul from the power of the nether word? (Selah) (Sheol )
The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow. (Sheol )
The bands of death had compassed me, and the pangs of the nether world had overtaken me; I had met with distress and sorrow: (Sheol )
If I should go up to heaven, you are there: if I should go down to hell, you are present. (Sheol )
If I should ascend into heaven, thou art there; and if I should make my bed in the nether world, behold, thou art there. (Sheol )
As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, our bones have been scattered by the [mouth of] the grave. (Sheol )
As when one cutteth in and splitteth open the earth: so are our bones scattered for the mouth of the grave. (Sheol )
and let us swallow him alive, as Hades [would], and remove the memorial of him from the earth: (Sheol )
We will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, as those that go down into the pit; (Sheol )
For the feet of folly lead those who deal with her down to the grave with death; and her steps are not established. (Sheol )
Her feet go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world: (Sheol )
Her house is the way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death. (Sheol )
The ways to the nether world is her house leading down to the chambers of death. (Sheol )
But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell. (Sheol )
But he knoweth not that the departed are there; that in the depths of the nether world are her guests. (Sheol )
Hell and destruction are manifest to the Lord; how shall not also be the hearts of men? (Sheol )
The nether world and corruption are open before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men! (Sheol )
The thoughts of the wise are ways of life, that he may turn aside and escape from hell. (Sheol )
The path of life [leadeth] upward for the intelligent, in order that he may avoid the nether world beneath. (Sheol )
For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death. (Sheol )
Thou wilt indeed beat him with the rod; but thou wilt deliver his soul from perdition. (Sheol )
Hell and destruction are not filled; so also are the eyes of men insatiable. [He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord; and the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue.] (Sheol )
The nether world and the place of corruption are never satisfied: so are the eyes of man never satisfied. (Sheol )
The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough. (Sheol )
The nether world; and a barren womb; the earth which is not satisfied with water; and the fire which never saith, Enough. (Sheol )
Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither you go. (Sheol )
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do with thy might, that do; for there is no work, nor experience, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the nether world, whither thou goest.— (Sheol )
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave, her shafts are shafts of fire, [even] the flames thereof. (Sheol )
Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm; for strong as death is love; violent like the nether world is jealousy; its heat is the heat of fire, a flame of God. (Sheol )
Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down [into it]. (Sheol )
Therefore hath the deep enlarged her desire, and opened her mouth without measure: and there descend [Jerusalem's] glory, and her multitude, and her noise, and whoever rejoiced therein. (Sheol )
Ask for yourself a sign of the Lord your God, in the depth or in the height. (Sheol )
Ask thee a sign from the Lord thy God; ask it in the depth, or high up above. (Sheol )
Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. (Sheol )
The nether world from below is in motion concerning thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the departed for thee, all the chief ones of the earth; it hath caused to rise up from their thrones all the kings of nations. (Sheol )
Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth: under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering. (Sheol )
Into the nether world is brought down thy pride, the clatter of thy psalteries: beneath thee is spread the worm, and thy cover is the moth. (Sheol )
But now you shall go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth. (Sheol )
But into the nether world shalt thou be brought down, into the lowest depth. (Sheol )
Because you have said, We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if the rushing storm should pass, it shall not come upon us: we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood shall we be protected: (Sheol )
Because ye have said, “We have entered into a covenant with death, and with the nether world have we made an agreement; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth by, shall not come at us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we sought a hiding-place.” (Sheol )
except it also take away your covenant of death, and your trust in Hades shall by no means stand: if the rushing storm should come upon you, you shall be beaten down by it. (Sheol )
And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with the nether world shall not have permanence; the overflowing scourge, when it passeth by—then shall ye be trodden down by it. (Sheol )
I said in the end of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I shall part with the remainder of my years. (Sheol )
I had said, In the midst of my days, must I enter the gates of the nether world; I am deprived of the residue of my years. (Sheol )
For they that are in the grave shall not praise you, neither shall the dead bless you, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for your mercy. (Sheol )
For the nether world will not thank thee, death will not praise thee: they that go down into the pit will not hope for thy truth. (Sheol )
and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased even to hell. (Sheol )
And thou didst show thyself unto the king without ointment, and thou didst multiply thy perfumes, and thou didst send out thy messengers even into the far-off distance, and didst debase thyself even down to the nether world. (Sheol )
Thus says the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him. (Sheol )
Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, On the day when it went down to the grave I caused a mourning; I covered the deep for its sake, and I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were withheld; and I caused Lebanon to be clothed in black attire for its sake, and all the trees of the field were famished because of it. (Sheol )
At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of [plants] of Libanus, all that drink water. (Sheol )
Through the noise of its downfall I caused nations to quake, when I cast it down into the tomb with the [others] that descend into the pit: and in the land of the nether world comforted themselves all the trees of 'Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that were nourished by water. (Sheol )
For they went down to hell with him amongst the slain with the sword; and his seed, [even] they that lived under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life. (Sheol )
They also went down with it into the tomb unto those that were slain with the sword, and its helpers that had dwelt under its shade in the midst of the nations. (Sheol )
Be you in the depth of the pit: to whom are you superior? yes, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them [that are] slain with the sword. (Sheol )
Then will speak of him the strongest among the mighty out of the midst of the nether world with those that once helped him, They are gone down, there lie the uncircumcised, —slain by the sword. (Sheol )
And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with [their] weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life. (Sheol )
And those who are fallen of the uncircumcised shall not lie with the mighty, who are gone down to the nether world with their weapons of war, while men laid their swords under their heads, and the [instruments of] their iniquities were upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty was in the land of the living. (Sheol )
I will deliver [them] out of the power of Hades, and will redeem them from death: where is your penalty, O death? O Hades, where is your sting? comfort is hidden from mine eyes. (Sheol )
From the power of the grave would I ransom them, from death would I redeem them; [but now] where are thy plagues, O death, where is thy pestilence, O grave? compassion shall be hidden from my eyes. (Sheol )
Though they hid themselves in hell, thence shall my hand drag them forth; and though they go up to heaven, thence will I bring them down. (Sheol )
Though they were to creep down into the nether world, thence would my hand fetch them; and though they were to climb up to the heavens, thence would I bring them down; (Sheol )
and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and he listened to me, [even] to my cry out of the belly of hell: you heard my voice. (Sheol )
And he said, I called from the midst of my distress unto the Lord, and he hath answered me: out of the depth of the grave have I cried, and thou hast heard my voice. (Sheol )
But the arrogant man and the scorner, the boastful man, shall not finish anything; who has enlarged his desire as the grave, and like death he is never satisfied, and he will gather to himself all the nations, and will receive to himself all the peoples. (Sheol )
And though the wine-[drunken] traitor, the proud man, whose house will not stand, who enlargeth his desire as the grave, and is like death, which cannot be satisfied, —though he gather unto him all the nations, and assemble unto him all the people: (Sheol )
And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you? ()
There is a way which seems to be right with men, but the ends of it reach to the depths of hell. ()
There are ways that seem to be right to a man, but the end of them looks to the depth of hell. ()