Isaiah 5:14 meaning and explanation
Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
Isaiah 5:14, Berean Standard Bible
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Isaiah has just pronounced woe on Judah's leaders and people for drunken feasting that ignores God's work (verses 11 and 12). Now Sheol, the Hebrew name for the realm of the dead, is pictured as a ravenous creature stretching open its throat to swallow them.
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