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Isaiah 38:18

English Standard Version 2016

For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.

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

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

“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?

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

while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.

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

To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

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