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Isaiah 38:18

18 For the dead* cannot praise you;

they cannot raise their voices in praise.

Those who go down to the grave

can no longer hope in your faithfulness.

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Isaiah 38:18 — The New International Version (NIV)

18 For the grave cannot praise you,

death cannot sing your praise;

those who go down to the pit

cannot hope for your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:18 — English Standard Version (ESV)

18 For Sheol does not thank you;

death does not praise you;

those who go down to the pit do not hope

for your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:18 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

18 For 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 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

18 For Sheol cannot thank You,

Death cannot praise You;

Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

Isaiah 38:18 — New Century Version (NCV)

18 People in the place of the dead cannot praise you;

those who have died cannot sing praises to you;

those who die don’t trust you

to help them.

Isaiah 38:18 — American Standard Version (ASV)

18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee:

They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Isaiah 38:18 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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

Isaiah 38:18 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

18 Sheol doesn’t thank you! 

Death doesn’t praise you! 

Those who go down to the pit cannot expect you to be faithful. 

Isaiah 38:18 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

18 For Sheol cannot thank You;

Death cannot praise You.

Those who go down to the Pit

cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:18 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

18 For Sheol cannot thank you,

death cannot praise you;

those who go down to the Pit cannot hope

for your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:18 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

18 For Sheol cannot praise you; death cannot praise you.

Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:18 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

18 People in the grave can’t praise you.

Dead people can’t sing praise to you.

Those who go down to the grave

can’t hope for you to be faithful to them.

Isaiah 38:18 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

18 “For Sheol cannot thank You,

Death cannot praise You;

Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.


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