Isaiah 5:14

Translations

Modern

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

Traditional

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

Literal

Therefore Sheol has enlarged her soul and has opened her mouth beyond measure; her nobles will go down—and her crowd and her revelers and exulting—into her.

Latin

Propterea dilatavit infernus animam suam, et aperuit os suum absque ullo termino; et descendent fortes ejus, et populus ejus, et sublimes gloriosique ejus, ad eum.

Original

Hebrew

English

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

Notes

Isaiah 5:14

The grave (Hebrew Sheol) represented the place of the dead in ancient Near Eastern thinking (see Isaiah 14:9).

Isaiah 5:11–17

Woe: The second threat of judgment concerns indulgent lifestyles (lives centered on pleasure and excess). The language in this section shows a life of moral corruption. The people live for pleasure while ignoring justice and righteousness.

Isaiah 5:8–23

This section contains six pronouncements of sorrow. They are six warnings of dreadful judgment (Isaiah 5:8, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22). These sorrows highlight some of the "sour grapes" produced by the vineyard of Israel (5:1–7).

Isaiah 5:1–30

The prophet delivered judgment through a song (Isaiah 5:1–7) and prophecies of sorrow (5:8–30). Although Israel's future will be pure and in fellowship with God (Isaiah 4:2–6), it must address the current sinful state of the people and their leaders.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Life After Death Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiah

Related verses

Luke 21:34
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
Habakkuk 2:5
…and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
Proverbs 30:16
Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
Psalm 55:15
Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
Isaiah 30:33
For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
Proverbs 27:20
Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Matthew 7:13
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Revelation 20:13–15
The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.
Numbers 16:30–34
But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
Isaiah 14:9
Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
Ezekiel 32:18–30
“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
Proverbs 1:12
…let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Glossary

Coins Curse, Cursed Hades Isaiah, Book of Strong Drink

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Glory of the Wicked: Ends in Destruction Glory: Temporal: Ends in Destruction Hades: The Realm (State) of the Dead Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Isaiah: Prophecies, Reproofs, and Exhortations of Denounces Existing Corruptions Measures: (Opening the Mouth Without Measure) the Insatiableness Wicked (People): Punishment of

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