Cross References

Isaiah 38:18

The Scriptures 1998

“For the grave does not thank You, nor death praise You; those who go down to the pit do not watch for Your truth.

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I cry to You, O יהוה my Rock: Do not be deaf to me! For if You are silent to me, I shall be like those who go down to the pit.

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

For in death there is no remembrance of You; Who gives You thanks in the grave?

I have grown weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.

By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

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

So they and all those with them went down alive into the grave, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

“And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.”

but the sons of the reign shall be cast out into outer darkness – there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”