Ezekiel 28:8

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They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

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  • Ezek 27:26-27 : 26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas. 27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.
  • Ezek 27:34 : 34 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.
  • Ezek 32:18-30 : 18 “Son of man, wail over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down; bring her and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the Pit. 19 Say to them,‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!’ 20 They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away. 21 The bravest of the warriors will speak to him from the midst of Sheol along with his allies, saying:‘The uncircumcised have come down; they lie still, killed by the sword.’ 22 “Assyria is there with all her assembly around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword. 23 Their graves are located in the remote slopes of the Pit. Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living. 24 “Elam is there with all her hordes around her grave; all of them struck down by the sword. They went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, those who spread terror in the land of the living. Now they will bear their shame with those who descend to the Pit. 25 Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the Pit; they are placed among the dead. 26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living. 27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living. 28 “But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword. 29 “Edom is there with her kings and all her princes. Despite their might they are laid with those killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and those who descend to the Pit. 30 “All the leaders of the north are there, along with all the Sidonians; despite their might they have gone down in shameful terror with the dead. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and bear their shame with those who descend to the Pit.
  • Job 17:16 : 16 Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”
  • Job 33:18 : 18 He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’
  • Ps 28:1 : 1 By David. To you, O LORD, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 “What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?
  • Ps 55:15 : 15 May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.
  • Ps 88:4-5 : 4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man, 5 adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
  • Prov 28:17 : 17 The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the Pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.

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    9Will you still say,“I am a god,” before the one who kills you– though you are a man and not a god– when you are in the power of those who wound you?

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    7I am about to bring foreigners against you, the most terrifying of nations. They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

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    34Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your company have sunk along with you.

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    36The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

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    15But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the Pit.

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    26Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

    27Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

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    34And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging.

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    15“This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

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    17They will sing this lament over you:“‘How you have perished– you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!

    18Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

    19“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,

    20then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the Pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.

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    19But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.

    20You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

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    28“But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.

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    30They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

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    19All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you; you have become terrified and will be no more.’”

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    18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

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    18“Son of man, wail over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down; bring her and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the Pit.

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    10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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    5The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.

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    2Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

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    3You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.

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    3“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘I will throw my net over you in the assembly of many peoples; and they will haul you up in my dragnet.

  • Ps 88:5-6
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    5adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.

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