Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 38:18 in other translations
| BSB | For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness. |
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| WEB | For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth. |
| ASV | For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. |
| YLT | For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth. |
| DARBY | For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth. |
| BBE | For 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. |
| Webster | For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. |
What does Isaiah 38:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 38:9-20
9-20. The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Is 38:9 is the heading or inscription.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 38:9-22
We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lord. A good man wishes not to live for any other end than that he may serve God, and have communion with him. Our present residence is like that of a shepherd in his hut, a poor, mean, and cold lodging, and with a trust…
Isaiah 38:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 38:18
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
- 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?
- Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
- Psalms 88:10-11
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
- Psalms 115:17-18
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord.
- Numbers 16:33
They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
- Luke 16:26-31
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. …
- Matthew 25:46
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
- Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
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Context
- Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I 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.
- Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
- Isaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah 38:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque el sepulcro no te celebrará, ni te alabará la muerte; ni los que descienden al hoyo esperarán tu verdad. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car ce n’est pas le shéol qui te louera, ni la mort qui te célébrera; ceux qui descendent dans la fosse ne s’attendent plus à ta vérité. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn nicht der Scheol preist dich, der Tod lobsingt dir nicht; die in die Grube hinabgefahren sind, harren nicht auf deine Treue. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quia non infernus confitebitur tibi, neque mors laudabit te: non exspectabunt qui descendunt in lacum veritatem tuam. |