OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 18

Isaiah 38:18

World English Bible Updated

For Sheol can’t praise you.

Death can’t celebrate you.

Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Isaiah 38:18 in context

Isaiah 38:15–21

15

What will I say?

He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it.

I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

16

Lord, men live by these things;

and my spirit finds life in all of them.

You restore me, and cause me to live.

17

Behold, for peace I had great anguish,

but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption;

for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

18
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For Sheol can’t praise you.

Death can’t celebrate you.

Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

19

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.

The father shall make known your truth to the children.

20

The LORD will save me.

Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the LORD’s house.

21

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

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  1. Sheol is the place of the dead.

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