Isaiah 38:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Isaiah 38:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Psalms 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Psalms 115:17-18
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. …
Psalms 88:10-11
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Dead (people)Death Doxology Dying God Graces Hades

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-22)

We have here Hezekiah’s thanksgiving-song, which he penned, by divine direction, after his recovery. He might have taken some of the psalms of his father David, and made use of them for his purpose; he might have found many very pertinent ones. He appointed the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David, 2 Chron. 29:30. But the occasion here was extraordinary, and, his heart being full of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

9-20. The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Is 38:9 is the heading or inscription.