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Isaiah 38:18
Isaiah 38:18 is verse 18 of Isaiah chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
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.
World English Bible
For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
Sheol is the place of the dead.
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Isaiah 38:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.
17 Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18 For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
19 The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
20 The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 6:5For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
Psalms 30:9“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
Psalms 88:11Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon ?
Psalms 115:17It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
Psalms 115:18But it is we who will bless the LORD, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
Numbers 16:33They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Luke 16:26And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’
Luke 16:27‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house,
Luke 16:28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also end up in this place of torment.’
Luke 16:29But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’
Luke 16:30‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone is sent to them from the dead, they will repent.’
Luke 16:31Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”