Isaiah 38:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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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.'"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 38:19
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    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
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    5For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

  • Ps 115:17-18
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    17The dead don't praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

    18But we will bless Yah, from this time forth and forevermore. Praise Yah!

  • Ps 30:9
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    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?

  • Ps 30:3
    76%

    3Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • Ps 88:10-11
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    76%

    10Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.

    11Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

  • Ps 88:3-6
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    74%

    3For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

    4I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

    5set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

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

  • Isa 38:17
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    17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

  • Isa 14:18-20
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    18All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

    19But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

    20You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

  • Job 17:16
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    16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

  • Ps 16:10
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    10For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

  • Jonah 2:6
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    6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

  • Job 3:21-22
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    71%

    21Who long for death, but it doesn't 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
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    48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

  • Ezek 26:20
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    20then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:

  • Isa 14:15
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    15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

  • Isa 14:9
    70%

    9Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

  • Acts 2:27
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    27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

  • Ezek 28:8
    70%

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

  • Job 30:24
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    24"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • Job 14:13
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    13"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, 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
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    17Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

  • Job 38:17
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    17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

  • Ps 63:9
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    9But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

  • Eccl 4:2
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    2Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

  • Job 21:32
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    32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

  • Ps 49:15
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    15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

  • Ps 28:1
    69%

    1To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

  • Prov 9:18
    69%

    18But he doesn't know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

  • Ezek 32:23
    69%

    23whose graves are set in the uttermost parts 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
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    20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

  • Ps 139:8
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    8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • Hos 13:14
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    14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

  • Isa 26:14
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    14The dead shall not live. The deceased shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

  • Ps 86:13
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    13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

  • Ps 118:18
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    18Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

  • Job 7:9
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

  • Ps 18:5
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    5The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.

  • Isa 5:14
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    14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.