Isaiah 38:18

New English Translation

Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.

Cross References

Psalm 28:1

To you, O Lord, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.

Psalm 30:9

“What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

Psalm 6:5

For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?

Psalm 6:6

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.

Numbers 16:33

They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.

Matthew 25:46

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

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”