Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire has been kindled by my anger, and it burns to lowest Sheol; ¹  it consumes the earth and its produce, and ignites the foundations of the mountains.

Nu 16:35; De 29:20; Job 9:5,6; Ps 21:9; Ps 46:2; Ps 83:14; Ps 86:13; Ps 97:3; Ps 144:5; Isa 24:6,19,20; Isa 30:33; Isa 54:10; Isa 66:15,16; Jer 4:4; Jer 15:14; Jer 17:4; La 2:3; La 4:11; Eze 36:5; Mic 1:4; Na 1:5; Na 1:6; Hab 3:10; Zep 3:8; Mal 4:1,2; Mt 10:28; Mt 18:9; Mt 23:33; Mr 9:43-48; 2Th 1:8; Heb 12:29

¹ tn Or “to the lowest depths of the earth”; cf. NAB “to the depths of the nether world”; NIV “to the realm of death below”; NLT “to the depths of the grave.”

sn Sheol refers here not to hell and hell-fire – a much later concept – but to the innermost parts of the earth, as low down as one could get. The parallel with “the foundations of the mountains” makes this clear (cf. Pss 9:17; 16:10; 139:8; Isa 14:9, 15; Amos 9:2).