Isaiah 38:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

Cross References

Psalm 28:1

Of David. My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Psalm 30:9

What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

Psalm 6:6

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

Proverbs 14:32

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

Numbers 16:33

So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.

Matthew 25:46

And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.

Matthew 8:12

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.