Mazmur 88:11

88:11 Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave,

or your faithfulness in the place of the dead? ¹ 

Yesaya 14:9

14:9 Sheol ²  below is stirred up about you,

ready to meet you when you arrive.

It rouses ³  the spirits of the dead for you,

all the former leaders of the earth; ⁴ 

it makes all the former kings of the nations

rise from their thrones. ⁵ 

[88:11]  ¹ tn Heb “in Abaddon,” a name for Sheol. The noun is derived from a verbal root meaning “to perish,” “to die.”

[14:9]  ² sn Sheol is the proper name of the subterranean world which was regarded as the land of the dead.

[14:9]  ³ tn Heb “arousing.” The form is probably a Polel infinitive absolute, rather than a third masculine singular perfect, for Sheol is grammatically feminine (note “stirred up”). See GKC 466 §145.t.

[14:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the rams of the earth.” The animal epithet is used metaphorically here for leaders. See HALOT 903 s.v. *עַתּוּד.

[14:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “lifting from their thrones all the kings of the nations.” הֵקִים (heqim, a Hiphil perfect third masculine singular) should be emended to an infinitive absolute (הָקֵים, haqem). See the note on “rouses” earlier in the verse.