Isaiah 38:18 · KJV
“For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”
— Isaiah 38:18
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. {for peace...: or, on my peace came great bitterness} {thou hast in...: Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit}
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I {do} this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Isaiah 38 — Context
O Lord, by these {things men} live, and in all these {things is} the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17Behold, 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. {for peace...: or, on my peace came great bitterness} {thou hast in...: Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit}
18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can {not} celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I {do} this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20The LORD {was ready} to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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.
Psalms 6:5
For in death {there is} no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 30:9
What profit {is there} in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Psalms 88:10-11
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise {and} praise thee? Selah.
Psalms 115:17-18
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
Numbers 16:33
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.
Matthew 25:46
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.