Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol does not confess You, || Death does not praise You, || Those going down to the pit do not hope for Your truth.

Literal Standard Version

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, He changed bitterness to peace for me, || And You have delighted in my soul without corruption, || For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

19The living, the living, he confesses You,

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Cross References

Psalms 6:5For in death there is no memorial of You, || In Sheol, who gives thanks to You?

Psalms 30:9“What gain [is] in my blood? In my going down to corruption? Does dust thank You? Does it declare Your truth?

Psalms 115:17The dead do not praise YAH, || Nor any going down to silence.

Ecclesiastes 9:10All that your hand finds to do, with your power do, for there is no work, and plan, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol to where you are going.

Matthew 25:46And these will go away into continuous punishment, but the righteous into continuous 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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