Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol hath enlarged herself, 1 and opened her mouth without chok (limit); 1 and their nobility, and their masses, 1 and their throngs, and the reveler, 1 shall descend into it. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13Therefore my people + 5:13 See Isa 53:8 are gone into the Golus, 1 because they have no da'as; 1 and their men of rank are starved, 1 and their multitude parched with thirst. 1

15And adam shall be abased, 1 and the ish shall be brought low, 1 and the eyes of the haughty shall be humbled; 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:36And Avigal came to Naval; and, hinei, he held a mishteh (feast) in his bais, like the mishteh of a melech; and lev Naval was tov within him, for he was shikkor ad me'od; wherefore she told him nothing, katan or gadol, until the ohr haboker.

Psalms 49:14This is their derech, kesel (folly, imprudent confidence) is theirs; 1 and the fate after them of those who approve their words. 1 Selah 1

Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She'ol; 1 and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit); 1

Proverbs 30:16Sheol, and the barren womb; 1 eretz that is never satisfied with mayim; 1 and eish that saith not, Enough! 1

Isaiah 21:4My lev panted, 1 fearfulness seized upon me; 1 the neshef (twilight) of my longing 1 hath become unto me as kharadah (shuddering horror). 1

Ezekiel 32:18Ben adam, wail for the multitude of Mitzrayim, and send them down, even her, and the banot of the mighty Goyim, unto the depths of ha'aretz, with them that go down into the bor (pit): 1

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 →

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