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Isaiah 5:14

King James Version (KJV)

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Isaiah 5:14

Verse 14 of 30

Scripture focus

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.

Isaiah 5:14 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 5:14

Theological / Devotional

Hell. Heb. she’ol, the figurative abode of the dead (see on 2 Sam. 12:23 ; 22:6).

Enlarged herself. That is, in order to accommodate the increased number of arrivals from the land of the living.

Their pomp. The nobility of Jerusalem, the multitudes of the people, all who glorified in their present pomp and took pleasure in their iniquities, would alike go down to destruction.

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