Isaiah 38:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

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  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?
  • Num 16:33 : 33 They, and all that belonged 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 Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah. 11 Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in destruction?
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence. 18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD.
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is banished in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 But the children of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And these will go away into everlasting 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, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us who would come from there. 27 Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brothers; that he may testify to them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 38:19
    81%

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

  • Ps 6:5
    80%

    5For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?

  • Ps 115:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence.

    18But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD.

  • Ps 30:9
    78%

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

  • Ps 30:3
    76%

    3O LORD, you have brought my soul up from the grave; you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • Ps 88:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.

    11Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in destruction?

  • Ps 88:3-6
    4 verses
    74%

    3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to the grave.

    4I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength:

    5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, and they are cut off from your hand.

    6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

  • Isa 38:17
    73%

    17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but in love for my soul, You have delivered it from the pit of corruption: for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

  • Isa 14:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house.

    19But you are cast out of your 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; like a carcass trodden under foot.

    20You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers will never be renowned.

  • Job 17:16
    72%

    16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

  • Ps 16:10
    72%

    10For You will not leave my soul in hell; nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

  • Jonah 2:6
    71%

    6I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

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

  • Ps 89:48
    71%

    48What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.

  • Ezek 26:20
    70%

    20when I shall bring you down with those who descend into the pit, with the people of old, and shall set you in the low parts of the earth, in places long desolate, with those who go down to the pit, so that you are not inhabited; and I will set beauty in the land of the living,

  • Isa 14:15
    70%

    15Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

  • Isa 14:9
    70%

    9Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  • Acts 2:27
    70%

    27For You will not leave my soul in Hades, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

  • Ezek 28:8
    70%

    8They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of those who are slain in the midst of the seas.

  • Job 30:24
    70%

    24However, He will not stretch out His hand to the grave, though they cry out in their destruction.

  • Job 14:13
    70%

    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Ps 31:17
    70%

    17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD, for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

  • Job 38:17
    70%

    17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors 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%

    2Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

  • Job 21:32
    70%

    32Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

  • Ps 49:15
    70%

    15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

  • Ps 28:1
    69%

    1To you I cry, O LORD my rock; do not be silent to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

  • Prov 9:18
    69%

    18But he does not know that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

  • Ezek 32:23
    69%

    23Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is around her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.

  • Ps 71:20
    69%

    20You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

  • Ps 139:8
    69%

    8If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

  • Eccl 9:5
    69%

    5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing, nor 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 the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hidden from my eyes.

  • Isa 26:14
    69%

    14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise; therefore, You have visited and destroyed them and made all their memory to perish.

  • Ps 86:13
    69%

    13For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of hell.

  • Ps 118:18
    69%

    18The LORD has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death.

  • Ps 49:17
    69%

    17For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

  • Job 7:9
    69%

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

  • Ps 18:5
    68%

    5The sorrows of hell surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.

  • Isa 5:14
    68%

    14Therefore hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he who rejoices, shall descend into it.

  • Ps 143:3
    68%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.