Isaiah 38:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.”
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“For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 38:18 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 16:33They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
- Psalms 6:5For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
- Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalms 30:9“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
- Psalms 88:10Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- Psalms 115:17It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Matthew 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Luke 16:26And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’
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