Isaiah 5:14
Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it.
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1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal: and, behold, he had a banquet in his house, as the banquet of a king, and the heart of Nabal was merry within him, and he was very drunken: and she told him nothing great or small till the morning light.
Psalms 49:14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; 1 And pay thy vows to the Most High. 1
Proverbs 1:12And let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, 1 And remove the memorial of him from the earth: 1
Proverbs 30:16The grave, and the love of a woman, and the earth not filled with water; water also and fire will not say, It is enough.
Isaiah 21:4My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
Ezekiel 32:18Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to 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 →