Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For, hades, cannot praise thee Nor, death, celebrate thee, - They who go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness.
New American Standard Bible
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down
King James Version
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Holman Bible
Death cannot praise You.
Those who go down to the Pit
cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
International Standard Version
For Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot sing your praise; and those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
A Conservative Version
For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
American Standard Version
For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Amplified
“For Sheol cannot praise or thank You,
Death cannot praise You and rejoice in You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
Bible in Basic English
For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
Darby Translation
For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
Julia Smith Translation
For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.
King James 2000
For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
Modern King James verseion
For the grave cannot praise You, death can not rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth:
NET Bible
Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.
New Heart English Bible
For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
Webster
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
World English Bible
For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.
Themes
natural Death » When averted for a season, is a motive to increased devotedness
hezekiah » King of judah » His psalm of thanksgiving
Hope » Who cannot hope for the truth of the lord
natural Life » Is compared to » A shepherd's tent removed
Murmuring » Instances of » hezekiah
Topics
Interlinear
Yadah
Halal
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 38:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hezekiah's Illness
17 Lo! for well-being, I had bitterness - bitterness, - But, thou, cleaving unto my soul, hast raised me from the pit of corruption, For thou hast cast, behind thy back all my sins. 18 For, hades, cannot praise thee Nor, death, celebrate thee, - They who go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness. 19 The living, the living, he, can praise thee, As I do this day, - A father, to his children, can make known thy faithfulness.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do, - for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.
Psalm 6:5
For, in death, is no remembrance of thee, - In hades, who shall give thanks unto thee?
Psalm 30:9
What profit in my blood? in my going down into the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?
Numbers 16:33
so, they, and all that pertained unto them, went down, alive unto hades, - and the earth, closed pen them, and they perished out of the midst of the convocation.
Psalm 88:10-11
For the dead, wilt thou perform a wonder? Or shall, the shades, arising, give thee thanks? Selah.
Psalm 115:17-18
The dead, cannot praise Yah, nor any that go down into silence;
Proverbs 14:32
By his own wickedness, shall the lawless man, be thrust down, but the righteous, seeketh refuge in his integrity.
Matthew 8:12
Whereas, the sons of the kingdom, shall be cast forth into the darkness outside, - There, will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 25:46
And, these, shall go away, into, age-abiding, correction, but, the righteous, into, age-abiding, life.
Luke 16:26-31
And, besides all these things, betwixt us and you, a great chasm, hath been fixed, - so that, they who might wish to cross over from hence unto you, should not be able, nor any, from thence unto us, be crossing over.