18For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.


In Context

15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so will you recover me, and make me to live.

17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

18 For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.

20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 38:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

38:18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

38:18For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

38:18For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

38:18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:18For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

38:18For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

38:18For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

38:18For Sheol doth not confess Thee, Death doth not praise Thee, Those going down to the pit hope not for Thy truth.