Verse 18

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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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 Return, LORD! Rescue my soul; save me because of Your steadfast love.
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 To You, O LORD, I call; to the Lord I plead for mercy:
  • Num 16:33 : 33 They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the community.
  • Ps 88:10-11 : 10 My eyes are wasted from sorrow; I call upon you, LORD, every day; I stretch out my hands to you. 11 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah.
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence. 18 But we will bless the Lord from now and forevermore. Praise the Lord!
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked are brought down by their own evil, but the righteous take refuge when they die.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
  • Luke 16:26-31 : 26 And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to cross from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us. 27 He said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so they will not also come to this place of torment.' 29 But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.' 30 ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ 31 But Abraham said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'