Isaiah 38:18

Hezekiah's Illness

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“Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such bitterness;
But You have loved back my life from the pit of nothingness (destruction),
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
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“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.
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“It is the living who give praise and 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 (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no mention of You;
In Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) who will praise You and give You thanks?

Psalm 30:9

“What profit is there in my blood (death), if I go down to the pit (grave)?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness [to man]?

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 among the assembly.

Psalm 88:10-11

Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall the departed spirits arise 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 overthrown through his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has hope and confidence and a refuge [with God] even in death.

Matthew 8:12

while the sons and heirs of the kingdom [the descendants of Abraham who will not recognize Me as Messiah] will be thrown out into the outer darkness; in that place [which is farthest removed from the kingdom] there will be weeping [in sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [in distress and anger].”

Matthew 25:46

Then these [unbelieving people] will go away into eternal (unending) punishment, but those who are righteous and in right standing with God [will go, by His remarkable grace] into eternal (unending) life.”

Luke 16:26-31

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