World English Bible
Isaiah 38:18
“For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 38
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Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.
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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.
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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.
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The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
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Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
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Prophecies of judgment and hope, pointing to the coming Messiah.
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