Isaiah 38:18

Hezekiah's Illness

¹⁷ “Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
¹⁸ “For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
¹⁹ “It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today;
A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

Go Down to the Pit

Going Down to the Pit

Reach Out

Hades

No

Sheol

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Psalm 6:5

For there is no mention of You in death;
In Sheol who will give You thanks?

Psalm 30:9

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

Numbers 16:33

So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

Psalm 88:10-11

Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.

Psalm 115:17-18

The dead do not praise the Lord,
Nor do any who go down into silence;

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew 25:46

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Luke 16:26-31

And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’