Isaiah 38:18
What does Isaiah 38:18 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 38:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
Context
v.17Behold, it wasformypeacethatI had great bitterness: But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
v.18This passage
v.19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 16:33
So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
- Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
- Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
- Psalms 115:17
The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;
- Psalms 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
- Matthew 25:46
And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.
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