Isaiah 38:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 `What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?
  • Num 16:33 : 33 and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly;
  • Ps 88:10-11 : 10 To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah. 11 Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence. 18 And we, we bless Jah, From henceforth, and unto the age. Praise ye Jah!
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'
  • Luke 16:26-31 : 26 and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through. 27 `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father, 28 for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment. 29 `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them; 30 and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform. 31 And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 19 The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.

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    5 For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

  • Ps 115:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17 The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence.

    18 And we, we bless Jah, From henceforth, and unto the age. Praise ye Jah!

  • 9 `What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

  • 3 Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down `to' the pit.

  • Ps 88:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

    11 Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?

  • Ps 88:3-6
    4 verses
    74%

    3 For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.

    4 I have been reckoned with those going down `to' the pit, I have been as a man without strength.

    5 Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

    6 Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

  • 17 Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

  • Isa 14:18-20
    3 verses
    73%

    18 All kings of nations -- all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,

    19 And -- thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.

    20 Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.

  • 16 `To' the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

  • 10 For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

  • 6 To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars `are' behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

    22 Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

  • 48 Who `is' the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

  • 20 And I have caused thee to go down, With those going down to the pit, Unto the people of old, And I have caused thee to dwell in the land, The lower parts -- in wastes of old, With those going down to the pit, So that thou art not inhabited, And I have given beauty in the land of the living.

  • 15 Only -- unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.

  • 9 Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.

  • 27 because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

  • 8 To destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.

  • 24 Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

  • 13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

  • 17 O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol.

  • 17 Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

  • 9 And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth.

  • 2 And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

  • 32 And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.

  • 15 Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

  • 1 By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

  • 18 And he hath not known that Rephaim `are' there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

  • 23 Whose graves are appointed in the sides of the pit, And her assembly is round about her grave, All of them wounded, falling by sword, Because they gave terror in the land of the living.

  • 20 Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

  • 8 If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou `art', And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

  • 5 For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

  • 14 From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where `is' thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

  • 14 Dead -- they live not, Rephaim, they rise not, Therefore Thou hast inspected and dost destroy them, Yea, thou destroyest all their memory.

  • 13 For Thy kindness `is' great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

  • 18 Jah hath sorely chastened me, And to death hath not given me up.

  • 17 For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

  • 9 Consumed hath been a cloud, and it goeth, So he who is going down to Sheol cometh not up.

  • 5 Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

  • 14 Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one -- into her.

  • 3 For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.