Isaiah 38:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For Sheol (the place of the dead) cannot confess and reach out the hand to You, death cannot praise and rejoice in You; they who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness [to Your promises; their probation is at an end, their destiny is sealed].

American Standard Version (1901)

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Common English Bible

The underworld can’t thank you, nor can death praise you; those who go down to the pit can’t hope for your faithfulness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For Hell will not confess to you, and death will not praise you. Those who descend into the pit will not hope for your truth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit look for thy truth.

Isaiah 38:18 Cross References

Psalm 28:1

Unto thee, O LORD, will I call; My rock, be not thou deaf unto me: Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 30:9

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing: But the righteous hath hope in his death.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Numbers 16:33

So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Matthew 25:46

And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and gnashing of teeth.