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She has caused many people to fall down pierced

Being pierced by spears or arrows represents being killed. AT: "She has caused many people to fall dead" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

Her house is on the paths to Sheol ... they go down

Here "paths" represents the kinds of behavior that foolish people participate in. Sheol was the name for the world of the dead.

on the paths to Sheol ... down to the dark bedrooms of death

These two phrases basically mean the same thing and are repeated to emphasize that the woman's victims will be destroyed. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)

the dark bedrooms of death

This expression pictures the dead as sleeping in many different rooms in Sheol. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

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