14 Therefore Death(A) expands its jaws,
    opening wide its mouth;(B)
into it will descend their nobles and masses
    with all their brawlers and revelers.(C)

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34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life,(A) and that day will close on you suddenly(B) like a trap.

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indeed, wine(A) betrays him;
    he is arrogant(B) and never at rest.
Because he is as greedy as the grave
    and like death is never satisfied,(C)
he gathers to himself all the nations
    and takes captive(D) all the peoples.

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16 the grave,(A) the barren womb,
    land, which is never satisfied with water,
    and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!’

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The Narrow and Wide Gates

13 “Enter through the narrow gate.(A) For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

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20 Death and Destruction[a] are never satisfied,(A)
    and neither are human eyes.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 27:20 Hebrew Abaddon

15 Let death take my enemies by surprise;(A)
    let them go down alive to the realm of the dead,(B)
    for evil finds lodging among them.

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13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades(A) gave up the dead(B) that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.(C) 14 Then death(D) and Hades(E) were thrown into the lake of fire.(F) The lake of fire is the second death.(G) 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life(H) was thrown into the lake of fire.

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33 Topheth(A) has long been prepared;
    it has been made ready for the king.
Its fire pit has been made deep and wide,
    with an abundance of fire and wood;
the breath(B) of the Lord,
    like a stream of burning sulfur,(C)
    sets it ablaze.(D)

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The realm of the dead(A) below is all astir
    to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed(B) to greet you—
    all those who were leaders(C) in the world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
    all those who were kings over the nations.(D)

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30 But if the Lord brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth(A) and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead,(B) then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt.(C)

31 As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart(D) 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them(E) and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions. 33 They went down alive into the realm of the dead,(F) with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community. 34 At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”

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21 On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. 22 They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man.” 23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel(A) of the Lord struck him down,(B) and he was eaten by worms and died.

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27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

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20 At his gate was laid a beggar(A) named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table.(B) Even the dogs came and licked his sores.

22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.

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19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)

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18 “Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign(A) to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to the pit.(B) 19 Say to them, ‘Are you more favored than others? Go down and be laid among the uncircumcised.’(C) 20 They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; let her be dragged(D) off with all her hordes.(E) 21 From within the realm of the dead(F) the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, ‘They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised,(G) with those killed by the sword.’

22 “Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword. 23 Their graves are in the depths of the pit(H) and her army lies around her grave.(I) All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.

24 “Elam(J) is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.(K) All who had spread terror in the land of the living(L) went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.(M) 25 A bed is made for her among the slain, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised,(N) killed by the sword. Because their terror had spread in the land of the living, they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are laid among the slain.

26 “Meshek and Tubal(O) are there, with all their hordes around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living. 27 But they do not lie with the fallen warriors of old,[a](P) who went down to the realm of the dead with their weapons of war—their swords placed under their heads and their shields[b] resting on their bones—though these warriors also had terrorized the land of the living.

28 “You too, Pharaoh, will be broken and will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.

29 “Edom(Q) is there, her kings and all her princes; despite their power, they are laid with those killed by the sword. They lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.(R)

30 “All the princes of the north(S) and all the Sidonians(T) are there; they went down with the slain in disgrace despite the terror caused by their power. They lie uncircumcised(U) with those killed by the sword and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.(V)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 32:27 Septuagint; Hebrew warriors who were uncircumcised
  2. Ezekiel 32:27 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text punishment

My heart(A) falters,
    fear makes me tremble;(B)
the twilight I longed for
    has become a horror(C) to me.

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12 let’s swallow(A) them alive, like the grave,
    and whole, like those who go down to the pit;(B)

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14 They are like sheep and are destined(A) to die;(B)
    death will be their shepherd
    (but the upright will prevail(C) over them in the morning).
Their forms will decay in the grave,
    far from their princely mansions.

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30 That very night Belshazzar,(A) king(B) of the Babylonians,[a] was slain,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 5:30 Or Chaldeans

So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. As they drank the wine, they praised the gods(A) of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.(B)

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale(C) and he was so frightened(D) that his legs became weak(E) and his knees were knocking.(F)

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28 Absalom(A) ordered his men, “Listen! When Amnon is in high(B) spirits from drinking wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I given you this order? Be strong and brave.(C) 29 So Absalom’s men did to Amnon what Absalom had ordered. Then all the king’s sons got up, mounted their mules and fled.

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36 When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high(A) spirits and very drunk.(B) So she told(C) him nothing at all until daybreak. 37 Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone.(D) 38 About ten days later, the Lord struck(E) Nabal and he died.

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10 They will be entangled among thorns(A)
    and drunk(B) from their wine;
    they will be consumed like dry stubble.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

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