Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; 1 those who go down into the pit do not hope in your trustworthiness. 1

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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

17It was for my benefit that I experienced such grief. 1 You have rescued me from the pit of destruction; 1 for you have thrown all my sins behind your back. 1

19The living person, the living person, he is the one who gives you thanks, as I do this day; 1 a father makes known to children your trustworthiness. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 6:5For in death there is no remembrance of you. 1 In Sheol who will give you thanks? 1

Psalms 30:9What advantage is there in my death, if I go down to the grave? Will the dust praise you? Will it declare your trustworthiness? 1

Psalms 115:17The dead do not praise Yahweh, 1 nor do any who go down into silence; 1

Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand finds to do, work at it with your strength, because there is no work or explanation or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, where you are going. 1

Matthew 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal 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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