Isaiah 38:18

For the nether world will not thank thee, death will not praise thee: they that go down into the pit will not hope for thy truth.

Leeser Tanakh

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, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast, in loving my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast behind thy back all my sins.

19The living, the living alone shall thank thee, like me this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:5(6:6) For in death men do not remember thee: in the nether world, who shall give thee thanks?

Psalms 30:9(30:10) What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the grave? Shall the dust thank thee? shall it announce thy truth?

Psalms 115:17Not the dead can praise the Lord, nor all those that go down into the silence [of death].

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do with thy might, that do; for there is no work, nor experience, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the nether world, whither thou goest.—

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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