Isaiah 38:18

For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 is my bitterness most bitter: but thou best delivered my soul that it should not perish, thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

19The living, the living, he shall give praise to thee, as I do this day: the father shall make thy truth known to the children.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:5Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's sake.

Psalms 30:9To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my God.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Matthew 25:46And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

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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