Isaiah 38:18

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

In Context

17See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

19The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:5\6:4\Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

Psalms 30:9\30:8\My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.

Psalms 115:17The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Matthew 25:46And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22

Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →

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