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Isaiah 5

Isa. 5:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore hell
sh'owl (Hebrew #7585)
from 7592; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
KJV usage: grave, hell, pit.
Pronounce: sheh-ole'
Origin: or shol {sheh-ole'}
hath enlarged
rachab (Hebrew #7337)
to broaden (intransitive or transitive, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be an en-(make) large(-ing), make room, make (open) wide.
Pronounce: raw-khab'
Origin: a primitive root
herself
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
, and opened
pa`ar (Hebrew #6473)
to yawn, i.e. open wide (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: gape, open (wide).
Pronounce: paw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
her mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
without measure
choq (Hebrew #2706)
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
KJV usage: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance(- nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
Pronounce: khoke
Origin: from 2710
: and their glory
hadar (Hebrew #1926)
magnificence, i.e. ornament or splendor
KJV usage: beauty, comeliness, excellency, glorious, glory, goodly, honour, majesty.
Pronounce: haw-dawr'
Origin: from 1921
, and their multitude
hamown (Hebrew #1995)
from 1993; a noise, tumult, crowd; also disquietude, wealth
KJV usage: abundance, company, many, multitude, multiply, noise, riches, rumbling, sounding, store, tumult.
Pronounce: haw-mone'
Origin: or hamon (Ezek. 5:7) {haw-mone'}
, and their pomp
sha'own (Hebrew #7588)
uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction
KJV usage: X horrible, noise, pomp, rushing, tumult (X -uous).
Pronounce: shaw-one'
Origin: from 7582
, and he that rejoiceth
`alez (Hebrew #5938)
exultant
KJV usage: that rejoiceth.
Pronounce: aw-laze'
Origin: from 5937
, shall descend
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
into it.

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Isa. 14:9• 9Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming; it stirreth up the giants for thee, all the chief ones of the earth, raising up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. (Isa. 14:9)
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Isa. 30:33• 33For Topheth [is] prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. (Isa. 30:33)
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Psa. 49:14• 14Like sheep they are laid in Sheol;{HR}Death feedeth on them,{HR}And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning;{HR}But their form consumeth in the grave,{HR}From their dwelling [consigned] to it. (Psa. 49:14)
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Prov. 27:20• 20Sheol and destruction are insatiable;{HR}So the eyes of man are never satisfied. (Prov. 27:20)
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Ezek. 32:18‑30• 18Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
24There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
26There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
29There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
(Ezek. 32:18‑30)
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Hab. 2:5• 5Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people. (Hab. 2:5)
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Matt. 7:13• 13Enter ye through the narrow gate; because wide [is] the gate, and broad the way that leadeth off unto destruction and many are they that enter through it. (Matt. 7:13)
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Rev. 20:13‑15• 13And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and hades gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged each according to their works.
14And death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
15And if Anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
(Rev. 20:13‑15)
opened.
he that rejoiceth.
Isa. 21:4• 4My heart panteth, horror affrighted me; the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me. (Isa. 21:4)
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1 Sam. 25:36‑38• 36And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
37And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38And it came to pass in about ten days that Jehovah smote Nabal, and he died.
(1 Sam. 25:36‑38)
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2 Sam. 13:28‑29• 28And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon; then slay him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
29And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and they rode each upon his mule and fled.
(2 Sam. 13:28‑29)
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Psa. 55:15• 15Let death seize them,{HR}Let them go down alive [to] Sheol.{HR}For evils [are] in their dwelling, in their midst. (Psa. 55:15)
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Dan. 5:3‑6,30• 3Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines, drank in them.
4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood and of stone.
5In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
6Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
(Dan. 5:3‑6,30)
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Nah. 1:10• 10for while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. (Nah. 1:10)
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Luke 12:19‑20• 19and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid up for many years; repose thyself; eat, drink, be merry.
20But God said unto him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
(Luke 12:19‑20)
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Luke 16:20‑23• 20And [there was] a poor man named Lazarus, [who] lay at his gateway full of sores,
21and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; nay, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22And it came to pass that the poor man died, and was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried.
23And in Hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
(Luke 16:20‑23)
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Luke 17:27• 27they ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all [of them]. (Luke 17:27)
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Luke 21:34• 34But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares, (Luke 21:34)
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Acts 12:21‑23• 21And on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel and seated on the throne, made an harangue unto them.
22And the people shouted thereon, A god's voice and not a man's.
23And immediately an angel of [the] Lord smote him, because he gave not the glory to God; and becoming worm-eaten he expired.
(Acts 12:21‑23)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Therefore doth Sheol enlarge its desire, and open its mouth without measure; and herg splendour shall descend into it, and her multitude, and her tumult, and all that is joyful within her.

JND Translation Notes

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i.e. Jerusalem's.

W. Kelly Translation

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Therefore Sheol hath enlarged her desire, and opened her mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their tumult, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it].