Isaiah 38:18

New King James Version

For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

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Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

For in death there is no remembrance of You; In the grave who will give You thanks?

“What profit is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

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

But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

The wicked is banished in his wickedness, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the assembly.

To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock: Do not be silent to me, Lest, if You are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.