Verse 18

For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

Referenced Verses

  • 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 Sheol, where you are going.
  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
  • Num 16:33 : 33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
  • Ps 88:10-11 : 10 Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah. 11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence; 18 But we will bless Yah, from this time forth and forevermore. Praise Yah!
  • Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
  • Luke 16:26-31 : 26 Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.' 27 "He said, 'I ask 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, so they won't also come into this place of torment.' 29 "But Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.' 30 "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.' 31 "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"