Lexicon :: Strong's G86 - hadēs

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” And his father wept for him.

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

“If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’

“when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hairs of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

“But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD.”

They went down alive into Sheol with all that belonged to them. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

“For fire has been kindled because of my anger

and burns to the depths of Sheol;

it devours the land and its produce,

and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

The LORD brings death and gives life;

he sends some down to Sheol, and he raises others up.

“Act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head descend to Sheol in peace.

“So don’t let him go unpunished, for you are a wise man. You know how to deal with him to bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

As a cloud fades away and vanishes,

so the one who goes down to Sheol will never rise again.

They are higher than the heavens ​— ​what can you do?

They are deeper than Sheol ​— ​what can you know?

If only you would hide me in Sheol

and conceal me until your anger passes.

If only you would appoint a time for me

and then remember me.

If I await Sheol as my home,

spread out my bed in darkness,

Will it go down to the gates of Sheol,

or will we descend together to the dust?

They spend[fn] their days in prosperity

and go down to Sheol in peace.

Sheol is naked before God,

and Abaddon has no covering.

He draws near to the Pit,

and his life to the executioners.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you?

Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

For there is no remembrance of you in death;

who can thank you in Sheol?

The wicked will return to Sheol —

all the nations that forget God.

For you will not abandon me to Sheol;

you will not allow your faithful one to see decay.

The ropes of Sheol entangled me;

the snares of death confronted me.

LORD, you brought me up from Sheol;

you spared me from among those

going down[fn] to the Pit.

LORD, do not let me be disgraced when I call on you.

Let the wicked be disgraced;

let them be quiet[fn][fn] in Sheol.

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;

Death will shepherd them.

The upright will rule over them in the morning,

and their form will waste away in Sheol,[fn]

far from their lofty abode.

Let death take them by surprise;

let them go down to Sheol alive,

because evil is in their homes and within them.

For your faithful love for me is great,

and you rescue my life from the depths of Sheol.

For I have had enough troubles,

and my life is near Sheol.

What courageous person can live and never see death?

Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

If the LORD had not been my helper,

I would soon rest in the silence of death.

It is not the dead who praise the LORD,

nor any of those descending into the silence of death.

The ropes of death were wrapped around me,

and the torments of Sheol overcame me;

I encountered trouble and sorrow.

If I go up to heaven, you are there;

if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil,

turning up rocks,

so our[fn] bones have been scattered

at the mouth of Sheol.

“Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,

whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

for her house sinks down to death

and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

Her feet go down to death;

her steps head straight for Sheol.

Her house is the road to Sheol,

descending to the chambers of death.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,

that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

There is a way that seems right to a person,

but its end is the way to death.

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD — 

how much more, human hearts.

For the prudent the path of life leads upward,

so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

There is a way that seems right to a person,

but its end is the way to death.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,

and people’s eyes are never satisfied.

Sheol; a childless womb;

earth, which is never satisfied with water;

and fire, which never says, “Enough! ”

Whatever your hands find to do, do with all your strength, because there is no work, planning, knowledge, or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Set me as a seal on your heart,

as a seal on your arm.

For love is as strong as death;

jealousy is as unrelenting as Sheol.

Love’s flames are fiery flames —

an almighty flame![fn]

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat

and opens wide its enormous jaws,

and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,

her crowds, and those who celebrate in her!