Verse 12

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

Referenced Verses

  • 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 124:3 : 3 they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Answer me quickly, LORD! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out.”
  • Lam 2:5 : 5 ה(He) The Lord, like an enemy, destroyed Israel. He destroyed all her palaces; he ruined her fortified cities. He made everyone in Daughter Judah mourn and lament.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 פ(Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said,“We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!”
  • Mic 3:2-3 : 2 yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones. 3 You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.
  • Rom 3:13 : 13 “Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Do not let them say to themselves,“Aha! We have what we wanted!” Do not let them say,“We have devoured him!”
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the yonath-elem-rekhoqim style; a prayer of David, written when the Philistines captured him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, for men are attacking me! All day long hostile enemies are tormenting me. 2 Those who anticipate my defeat attack me all day long. Indeed, many are fighting against me, O Exalted One.
  • Ps 57:3 : 3 May he send help from heaven and deliver me from my enemies who hurl insults!(Selah) May God send his loyal love and faithfulness!
  • Num 16:30-33 : 30 But if the LORD does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD. 31 When he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open, 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods. 33 They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.
  • Num 26:10 : 10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.