Isaiah 5:14
Therefore the nether-world hath enlarged her desire, and opened her mouth without measure; and down goeth their glory, and their tumult, and their uproar, and he that rejoiceth among them.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
15And man is bowed down, and man is humbled, and the eyes of the lofty are humbled;
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken; wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
Psalms 49:14(49-15) Like sheep they are appointed for the nether-world; death shall be their shepherd; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their form shall be for the nether-world to wear away, that there be no habitation for it.
Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Proverbs 30:16The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that saith not: 'Enough.'
Isaiah 21:4My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.
Ezekiel 32:18'Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, with the daughters of the mighty nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:9-18
Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow… Read the whole commentary →