Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot thank Thee, 1 mavet can not praise Thee; 1 they that go down into the bor (pit) 1 cannot hope for Thy emes. 1

Orthodox Jewish 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

17Hinei, for shalom (benefit) did I have great bitterness; 1 for Thou hast in love to my nefesh 1 delivered it from the shachat (pit) of destruction; 1 for Thou hast cast 1 all my chatta'im behind Thy back. 1

19The living, the living, 1 he shall thank Thee, as I do today; 1 av to banim shall make known Thy emes. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 6:5Turn, Hashem, deliver my nefesh; 1 hoshieini (save me) for the sake of Thy chesed. 1

Psalms 30:9I cried to Thee, Hashem; 1 and unto Adonoi I made supplication. 1

Psalms 115:17The mesim (dead ones) praise not Hashem, 1 neither do any that descend into Dumah (the silent). + 115:17 place of Sheol 1

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy koach; for there is no ma'aseh, nor cheshbon, nor da'as, nor chochmah in Sheol, whither thou goest.

Matthew 25:46And these will go away into Onesh Olam (Eternal Punishment), but the tzaddikim into Chayyei Olam (Eternal Life). + 25:46 Isa 66:24; Dan 12:2

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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