Psalms 49:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.

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  • Mal 4:3 : 3 You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • 1 Cor 6:2 : 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?
  • Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
  • Dan 7:22 : 22 until the Ancient of Days arrived and judgment was rendered in favor of the holy ones of the Most High. Then the time came for the holy ones to take possession of the kingdom.
  • Luke 22:30 : 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Job 24:19-20 : 19 The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner. 20 The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.
  • Ps 44:11 : 11 You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.
  • Ps 47:3 : 3 He subdued nations beneath us and countries under our feet.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 38:10-11 : 10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’ 11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But you, LORD, know all about me. You watch me and test my devotion to you. Drag these wicked men away like sheep to be slaughtered! Appoint a time when they will be killed!
  • Dan 7:18 : 18 The holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will take possession of the kingdom forever and ever.’
  • Job 4:21 : 21 Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.
  • Job 17:13-14 : 13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness, 14 If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’
  • Job 21:13 : 13 They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
  • Job 21:26 : 26 Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
  • Rom 8:36 : 36 As it is written,“For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
  • Rev 2:26-27 : 26 And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations– 27 he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,
  • Rev 20:4-5 : 4 Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 So let us search for him! Let us seek to know the LORD! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”
  • Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,
  • Ps 30:5 : 5 For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.

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    15But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety.(Selah)

  • Isa 14:18-20
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    18As for all the kings of the nations, all of them lie down in splendor, each in his own tomb.

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  • Job 21:26
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    26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

  • Ps 49:11-13
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    11Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves,

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    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

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    14The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • Job 21:32
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    32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • Job 24:17
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    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Ps 49:19
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    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • Ps 141:7
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    7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • Job 21:13
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    13They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

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    5You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

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    12We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

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    27They 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.

  • Job 14:12
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    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

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    2For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

  • Jer 16:4
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    4They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.

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    11Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.

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    17For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

  • Job 17:16
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    16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

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    14They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male cultic prostitutes.

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    19The drought as well as the heat snatch up the melted snow; so the grave snatches up the sinner.

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    9so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.

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    23Their 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.

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    8They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.

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