Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
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- 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 the grave, whither thou goest.
- Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave 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 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.
- Ps 88:10-11 : 10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead 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 the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. 18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.
- Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Matt 8:12 : 12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
- Luke 16:26-31 : 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then 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 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto 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, though one rose from the dead.
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19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
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5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
- Ps 115:17-182 verses79%
17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.
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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?
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3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
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10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
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3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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17 Behold, for peace 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.
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18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
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16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
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21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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48 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
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20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
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15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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9 Hell 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.
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27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
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24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
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17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
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2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
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1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
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18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
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23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
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20 Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
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8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
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5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
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14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
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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 their memory to perish.
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13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
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18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
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17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
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9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
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14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
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3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.