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Isaiah 38:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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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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.

“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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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