Isaiah 38:18

In 11 translations

BSB

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

KJV

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

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.Sheol is the place of the dead.

ASV

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

LSV

For Sheol does not confess You, || Death does not praise You, || Those going down to the pit do not hope for Your truth.

YLT

For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

DBY

For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.

DRC

For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

GNV

For the graue cannot confesse thee: death cannot praise thee: they that goe downe into the pit, cannot hope for thy trueth.

JPS

For the nether-world cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee; they that go down into the pit cannot hope for Thy truth.

LXXE

For they that are in the grave shall not praise thee, neither shall the dead bless thee, neither shall they that are in Hades hope for thy mercy.

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Original-language editions

WLC

כִּ֣י לֹ֥א שְׁא֛וֹל תּוֹדֶ֖ךָּ מָ֣וֶת יְהַלְלֶ֑ךָּ לֹֽא־יְשַׂבְּר֥וּ יֽוֹרְדֵי־ב֖וֹר אֶל־אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃

LXX-Br

Οὐ γὰρ οἱ ἐν ᾅδου αἰνέσουσί σε, οὐδὲ οἱ ἀποθανόντες εὐλογήσουσί σε, οὐδὲ ἐλπιοῦσιν οἱ ἐν ᾄδου τὴν ἐλεημοσύνην σου.

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• Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
• Psalms 6:5For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
• Psalms 30:9“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
• Psalms 115:17–18It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence. But it is we who will bless the LORD, both now and forevermore. Hallelujah!
• Psalms 88:10–11Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
• Numbers 16:33They went down alive into Sheol with all they owned. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.
• Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• Matthew 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
• Luke 16:26–31And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’ ‘Then I beg you, father,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus…

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