Verse 18
Isaiah 38:18
King James Version
18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can
not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י לֹ֥א שְׁא֛וֹל תּוֹדֶ֖/ךָּ מָ֣וֶת יְהַלְלֶ֑/ךָּ לֹֽא יְשַׂבְּר֥וּ יֽוֹרְדֵי ב֖וֹר אֶל אֲמִתֶּֽ/ךָ
English Translation
For the grave cannot praise you; death cannot celebrate you; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.
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Chapter 38 Context
1
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, an...
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Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
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And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a pe...
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Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,
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Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God (Elohim) of David thy father, I have heard thy...
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6
And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this...
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7
And this
shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spok...
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8
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, te...
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9
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
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10
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the res...
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11
I said, I shall not see the LORD,
even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no mo...
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12
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my l...
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13
I reckoned till morning,
that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day
even to night wilt...
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14
Like a crane
or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail
with looking upwa...
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15
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done
it: I shall go softly all my ye...
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16
O Lord, by these
things men live, and in all these
things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou rec...
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17
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul
delivered it from the pit...
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18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can
not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit canno...
19
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I
do this day: the father to the children shall mak...
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20
The LORD
was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the d...
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21
For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay
it
for a plaister upon the boil, and he...
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22
Hezekiah also had said, What
is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?
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