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Isaiah 38:18

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.

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Isaiah 38:18 in other translations

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

Isaiah 38:18 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 38:18 in context

  1. 16Lord, men live by these things;
    and my spirit finds life in all of them:
    you restore me, and cause me to live.
  2. 17Behold, 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.
  3. 18For Sheol can’t praise you.
    Death can’t celebrate you.
    Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
  4. 19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today.
    The father shall make known your truth to the children.
  5. 20Yahweh will save me.
    Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.