Isaiah 38:18

For the under-world cannot praise thee; The realms of death cannot celebrate thee; They that go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness.

Noyes Bible

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, my anguish is changed into ease; In love thou hast delivered me from the pit of destruction; Thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

19The living, the living praise thee, as I do this day; The father to the children shall make known thy faithfulness.

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Cross References

Psalms 6:5For in death no praise is given to thee; In the underworld who can give thee thanks?

Psalms 30:9“What will my blood profit thee, that I should go down to the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?

Psalms 115:17The dead praise not the LORD,—No one who goeth down into silence.

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might! For there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the under-world, whither thou goest.

Matthew 25:46And these will go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into everlasting 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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