Isaiah 14:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.”
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BSBPD
“But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Only--unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Isaiah 14:15 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
- Isaiah 14:3On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
- Ezekiel 28:8They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
- Ezekiel 31:14This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’
- Ezekiel 32:23Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword— those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
- Obadiah 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Matthew 11:23And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
- Luke 10:15And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades!
- Acts 12:22And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
- Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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