Proverbs 1:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 28:1 : 1 > To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Ps 124:3 : 3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 You who hate the good, And love the evil; Who tear off their skin, And their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them, And break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 > Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. 2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, For they are many who fight proudly against me.
  • Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, He rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
  • Num 16:30-33 : 30 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh. 31 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; 32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. 33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
  • Num 26:10 : 10 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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    11If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

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    13We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil.

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  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

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    3Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

    4Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;

  • Ps 35:25
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    25Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9As for the head of those who surround me, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

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    9But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

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  • Prov 1:18-19
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    18But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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  • Num 16:32-34
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    32and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

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    34All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Gen 37:20
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    20Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

  • Ps 35:6-8
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    6Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them.

    7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

    8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Ps 141:7
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    7"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

  • Amos 9:2
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    2Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

  • Ps 83:12
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    12Who said, "Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands."

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    3For 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.

  • Ezek 32:23
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    23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

  • Ps 73:19
    72%

    19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Num 16:30
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    30But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.

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    22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

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    12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.

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    47Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

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    6They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

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    24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

  • Job 30:6
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    6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, And in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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    19Drought and heat consume the snow waters; So does Sheol those who have sinned.

  • Lam 4:19-20
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    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

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    14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, Far from their mansion.

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    15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

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    17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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    5They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

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    6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the midst of it themselves. Selah.

  • Job 17:16
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    16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"

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    16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

  • Job 3:22
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    22Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?

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    5Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

  • Ps 21:9
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    9You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.