Isaiah 38:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ For Sheol cannot thank you; death cannot praise you; those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ 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

To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, do not refuse to hear me, for if you are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.

Psalm 30:9

“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give you praise?

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Numbers 16:33

So they with all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

Matthew 25:46

And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 8:12

while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”