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


In Context

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 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 this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

20 Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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