Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;

Her feet go down into death, and her steps go in as far as hell.

Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on the nether-world;

Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell.

Her feet go down to death - She first, like a serpent, infuses her poison, by which the whole constitution of her paramour is infected, which soon or late brings on death.
Her steps take hold on hell - First, the death of the body; and then the damnation of the soul. These are the tendencies of connections with such women.

Her (c) feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
(c) All her doings lead to destruction.

Her feet go down to death,.... The ways in which she walks, and in which she leads others, issue oftentimes in corporeal death; and always in eternal death, if grace prevent not; and unless men are brought to a sense of sin, to repent of it and leave it. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "the feet of imprudence" or "folly", in opposition to wisdom; that is, the feet of the foolish woman, such an one the harlot is; and such is the whore of Rome, notwithstanding all her boasted knowledge and wisdom. And into perdition, or the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death, she goes herself, and hither she brings all that follow her idolatrous practices, Revelation 17:8;
her steps take hold on hell; make sure of it; hell is the certain portion of the harlot, and of all those that follow her lewd courses, unless reclaimed by the grace of God; and this will be the case of the worshippers of antichrist, or who give into the idolatries of the church of Rome, or commit fornication with her, Revelation 14:9. Or, "her steps support hell" (h); keep it up, and fill it with inhabitants; millions are carried into it by her means: or, reach unto hell; she stops not till she comes there, and her followers with her. The word may be rendered "the grave", and may respect such whores who haunted burying places, and prostituted themselves among the graves; and were called from hence "bustuariae moechae" (i).
(h) "sustentabunt", Montanus; "sustinant", Vatablus; "sustentent", Mercerus, Gejerus. (i) Vid. Turnebi Adversar. l. 13. c. 19. & Sept. vers. in Jeremiah. ii. 23.

feet . . . , steps--that is, course of life ends in death.

Feet - Her manner of life.