Parallel Verses
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 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:
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 "Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight. 18 Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness. 19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.
Psalm 6:5
For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?
Psalm 30:9
"What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?
Numbers 16:33
They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.
Psalm 88:10-11
Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks? (Selah)
Psalm 115:17-18
The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Matthew 25:46
And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Luke 16:26-31
Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.'