Parallel Verses
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:
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.
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.
The Emphasized Bible
For, hades, cannot praise thee Nor, death, celebrate thee, - They who go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness.
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 Behold, bitter as gall was my pensiveness: so sore longed I for health. And it was thy pleasure to deliver me from the filthy pit: for thou it is, O Lord, that hath cast all my sins behind thy back. 18 For hell praiseth not thee, death doth not magnify thee. They that go down into the grave, praise not thy truth: 19 but the living, yea the living acknowledge thee, like as I do this day. The father telleth his children of thy faithfulness.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thou takest in hand to do, that do with all thy power: for among the dead, where thou goest unto, there is neither work, counsel, knowledge nor wisdom.
Psalm 6:5
For in death no man remembereth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the hell?
Psalm 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down into the pit? Shall the dust give thanks unto thee? Or shall it declare thy truth?
Numbers 16:33
And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.
Psalm 88:10-11
Dost thou show wonders among the dead? Can the Physicians raise them up again, that they may praise thee? Selah.
Psalm 115:17-18
The dead praise not thee, O LORD, neither all they that go down into silence.
Proverbs 14:32
The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.
Matthew 8:12
And the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into the utter darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Matthew 25:46
And these shall go into everlasting pain: And the righteous into life eternal.
Luke 16:26-31
Beyond all this, between you and us there is a great space set, so that they which would go from hence to you, cannot: neither may come from thence to us.'