Isaiah 38:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?
  • Num 16:33 : 33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people.
  • Ps 88:10-11 : 10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) 11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld. 18 But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
  • Luke 16:26-31 : 26 And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us. 27 And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house; 28 For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain. 29 But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say. 30 And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed. 31 And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 38:19
    81%

    19The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

  • Ps 6:5
    80%

    5For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

  • Ps 115:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.

    18But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever. Praise be to the Lord.

  • Ps 30:9
    78%

    9What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

  • Ps 30:3
    76%

    3O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

  • Ps 88:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

    11Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

  • Ps 88:3-6
    4 verses
    74%

    3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

    4I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

    5My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

    6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

  • Isa 38:17
    73%

    17See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

  • Isa 14:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,

    19But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

    20As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • Job 17:16
    72%

    16Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • Ps 16:10
    72%

    10For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

  • Jonah 2:6
    71%

    6The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

    22Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

  • Ps 89:48
    71%

    48What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

  • Ezek 26:20
    70%

    20Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.

  • Isa 14:15
    70%

    15But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • Isa 14:9
    70%

    9The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

  • Acts 2:27
    70%

    27For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.

  • Ezek 28:8
    70%

    8They will send you down to the underworld, and your death will be the death of those who are put to the sword in the heart of the seas.

  • Job 30:24
    70%

    24Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Job 14:13
    70%

    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Ps 31:17
    70%

    17Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

  • Job 38:17
    70%

    17Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

  • Ps 63:9
    70%

    9But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

  • Eccl 4:2
    70%

    2So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

  • Job 21:32
    70%

    32He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

  • Ps 49:15
    70%

    15But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

  • Ps 28:1
    69%

    1<Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

  • Prov 9:18
    69%

    18But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

  • Ezek 32:23
    69%

    23Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.

  • Ps 71:20
    69%

    20You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

  • Ps 139:8
    69%

    8If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

  • Eccl 9:5
    69%

    5The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

  • Hos 13:14
    69%

    14I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

  • Isa 26:14
    69%

    14The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

  • Ps 86:13
    69%

    13For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

  • Ps 118:18
    69%

    18The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

  • Ps 49:17
    69%

    17For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • Job 7:9
    69%

    9A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

  • Ps 18:5
    68%

    5The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • Isa 5:14
    68%

    14For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

  • Ps 143:3
    68%

    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.