941 verses about Hell

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don’t hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.