And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.
And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.
If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.
When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.
But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.
So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.
For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.
The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.
But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.
A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.
They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;
If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.
Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.
The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
The underworld is uncovered before him, and destruction has no veil.
To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.
And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:
He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.
Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.
For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
<Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.
What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?
Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.
So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.
Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.
You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.
The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.
Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.
For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.
Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.
The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.
But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.
I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.
For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.
The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.
And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.
Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.
They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.
In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.
This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.
I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.
And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations
Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld.
The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword.
Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.
There is elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld:
They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.
And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.
There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld.
There are the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld.
I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.
Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:
In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.
So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,
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