Isaiah 38:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 All that thine hand shall finde to doe, doe it with all thy power: for there is neither worke nor inuention, nor knowledge, nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the graue who shall prayse thee?
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 What profite is there in my blood, when I go downe to the pit? shall the dust giue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth?
  • Num 16:33 : 33 So they and all that they had, went down aliue into the pit, and the earth couered them: so they perished from among the Congregation.
  • Ps 88:10-11 : 10 Wilt thou shewe a miracle to the dead? or shall the dead rise and prayse thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy louing kindenes be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnes in destruction?
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead prayse not the Lord, neither any that goe downe into the place of silence. 18 But we will prayse the Lorde from henceforth and for euer. Prayse ye the Lord.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked shall be cast away for his malice: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 And the children of the kingdome shall be cast out into vtter darkenes: there shalbe weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall goe into euerlasting paine, and the righteous into life eternall.
  • Luke 16:26-31 : 26 Besides all this, betweene you & vs there is a great gulfe set, so that they which would goe from hence to you, can not: neither ca they come from thence to vs. 27 Then he said, I pray thee therfore, father, that thou wouldest sende him to my fathers house, 28 (For I haue fiue brethren) that he may testifie vnto them, least they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham said vnto him, They haue Moses and the Prophets: let them heare them. 30 And he sayde, Nay, father Abraham: but if one came vnto them from the dead, they will amend their liues. 31 Then he saide vnto him, If they heare not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rise from the dead againe.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 19But the liuing, the liuing, he shall confesse thee, as I doe this day: the father to the children shall declare thy trueth.

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    5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the graue who shall prayse thee?

  • Ps 115:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17The dead prayse not the Lord, neither any that goe downe into the place of silence.

    18But we will prayse the Lorde from henceforth and for euer. Prayse ye the Lord.

  • 9What profite is there in my blood, when I go downe to the pit? shall the dust giue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth?

  • 3O Lorde, thou hast brought vp my soule out of the graue: thou hast reuiued me from them that goe downe into the pit.

  • Ps 88:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Wilt thou shewe a miracle to the dead? or shall the dead rise and prayse thee? Selah.

    11Shall thy louing kindenes be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnes in destruction?

  • Ps 88:3-6
    4 verses
    74%

    3For my soule is filled with euils, and my life draweth neere to the graue.

    4I am counted among them that go downe vnto the pit, and am as a man without strength:

    5Free among the dead, like the slaine lying in the graue, whome thou remembrest no more, and they are cut off from thine hand.

    6Thou hast layde me in the lowest pit, in darkenes, and in the deepe.

  • 17Beholde, for felicitie I had bitter griefe, but it was thy pleasure to deliuer my soule from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe.

  • Isa 14:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18All the Kings of the nations, euen they all sleepe in glorie, euery one in his owne house.

    19But thou art cast out of thy graue like an abominable branch: like the raiment of those that are slaine, and thrust thorowe with a sword, which goe downe to the stones of the pit, as a carkeise troden vnder feete.

    20Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in the graue, because thou hast destroied thine owne lande, and slaine thy people: the seede of the wicked shall not be renoumed for euer.

  • 16They shal goe downe into the bottome of the pit: surely it shall lye together in the dust.

  • 10For thou wilt not leaue my soule in the graue: neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption.

  • 6I went downe to the bottome of the moutaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer, yet hast thou brought vp my life from the pit, O Lorde my God.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

    22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.

  • 48What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.

  • 20When I shall cast thee downe with them that descende into the pitte, with the people of olde time, and shall set thee in the lowe partes of the earth, like the olde ruines, with them, I say, which goe downe to the pitte, so that thou shalt not be inhabited, and I shall shewe my glory in the land of the liuing,

  • 15But thou shalt bee brought downe to the graue, to the sides of the pit.

  • 9Hel beneath is mooued for thee to meete thee at thy coming, raising vp the deade for thee, euen all the princes of the earth, and hath raised from their thrones all the Kinges of the nations.

  • 27Because thou wilt not leaue my soule in graue, neither wilt suffer thine Holy one to see corruption.

  • 8They shall cast thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slaine in the middes of the sea.

  • 24Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.

  • 13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.

  • 17Let me not be confounded, O Lorde: for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked bee put to confusion, and to silence in the graue.

  • 17Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?

  • 9Therefore they that seeke my soule to destroy it, they shall goe into the lowest partes of the earth.

  • 2Wherefore I praysed the dead which now are dead, aboue the liuing, which are yet aliue.

  • 32Yet shal he be brought to the graue, & remaine in the heape.

  • 15But God shall deliuer my soule from the power of the graue: for he will receiue me. Selah.

  • 1A Psalme of Dauid. Vnto thee, O Lord, doe I crie: O my strength, be not deafe toward mee, lest, if thou answere me not, I be like them that goe downe into the pit.

  • 18But he knoweth not, that ye dead are there, and that her ghestes are in the depth of hell.

  • 23Whose graues are made in the side of the pit, and his multitude are rounde about his graue: all they are slaine and fallen by the sworde, which caused feare to be in the land of the liuing.

  • 20Which hast shewed me great troubles and aduersities, but thou wilt returne, and reuiue me, and wilt come againe, and take mee vp from the depth of the earth.

  • 8If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there.

  • 5For the liuing knowe that they shall dye, but the dead knowe nothing at all: neither haue they any more a rewarde: for their remembrance is forgotten.

  • 14I wil redeeme them from the power of the graue: I will deliuer them from death: O death, I wil be thy death: O graue, I will be thy destruction: repentance is hid from mine eyes.

  • 14The dead shall not liue, neither shall the dead arise, because thou hast visited and scattered them, and destroyed all their memorie.

  • 13For great is thy mercie toward me, & thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest graue.

  • 18The Lorde hath chastened me sore, but he hath not deliuered me to death.

  • 17For he shall take nothing away when he dieth, neither shal his pompe descende after him.

  • 9As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more.

  • 5The sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me.

  • 14Therefore hel hath inlarged it selfe, & hath opened his mouth, without measure, and their glorie, and their multitude, and their pompe, and hee that reioyceth among them, shall descend into it.

  • 3For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: he hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long agoe: