Isaiah 38:18

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
  • Ps 30:9 : 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?
  • Num 16:33 : 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.
  • Ps 88:10-11 : 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? {{Selah 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence; 18 But we will bless Jehovah From this time forth and for evermore. Praise ye Jehovah.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.
  • Luke 16:26-31 : 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us. 27 And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house; 28 for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 But Abraham saith, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one go to them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rise from the dead.

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  • Isa 38:19
    81%

    19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

  • Ps 6:5
    80%

    5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

  • Ps 115:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;

    18But we will bless Jehovah From this time forth and for evermore. Praise ye Jehovah.

  • Ps 30:9
    78%

    9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

  • Ps 30:3
    76%

    3O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • Ps 88:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? {{Selah

    11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?

  • Ps 88:3-6
    4 verses
    74%

    3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

    4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,

    5Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.

    6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

  • Isa 38:17
    73%

    17Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] 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.

  • Isa 14:18-20
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    73%

    18All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.

    19But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

    20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.

  • Job 17:16
    72%

    16It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

  • Ps 16:10
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    10For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

  • Jonah 2:6
    71%

    6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

    22Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

  • Ps 89:48
    71%

    48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? {{Selah

  • Ezek 26:20
    70%

    20then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

  • Isa 14:15
    70%

    15Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

  • Isa 14:9
    70%

    9Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  • Acts 2:27
    70%

    27Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.

  • Ezek 28:8
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    8They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.

  • Job 30:24
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    24Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • Job 14:13
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    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Ps 31:17
    70%

    17Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; For I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

  • Job 38:17
    70%

    17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

  • Ps 63:9
    70%

    9But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • Eccl 4:2
    70%

    2Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

  • Job 21:32
    70%

    32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Ps 49:15
    70%

    15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. {{Selah

  • Ps 28:1
    69%

    1[[ A Psalm] of David]. Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • Prov 9:18
    69%

    18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

  • Ezek 32:23
    69%

    23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

  • Ps 71:20
    69%

    20Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

  • Ps 139:8
    69%

    8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

  • Eccl 9:5
    69%

    5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Hos 13:14
    69%

    14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

  • Isa 26:14
    69%

    14[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.

  • Ps 86:13
    69%

    13For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

  • Ps 118:18
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    18Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not given me over unto death.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.

  • Job 7:9
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

  • Ps 18:5
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    5The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

  • Isa 5:14
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    14Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it] . [

  • Ps 143:3
    68%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.