Isaiah 38:18

For Hell will not confess to you, and death will not praise you. Those who descend into the pit will not hope for your truth.

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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

17Behold, in peace my bitterness is most bitter. But you have rescued my soul, so that it would not perish. You have cast all my sins behind your back.

19The living, the living, these will give praise to you, as I also do this day! The father will make the truth known to the sons.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:5Turn to me, Lord, and rescue my soul. Save me because of your mercy.

Psalms 30:9And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.

Matthew 25:46And these shall go into eternal punishment, but the just shall go 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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