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Isaiah 38

Isa. 38:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For the grave
sh'owl (Hebrew #7585)
from 7592; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
KJV usage: grave, hell, pit.
Pronounce: sheh-ole'
Origin: or shol {sheh-ole'}
q cannot praise
yadah (Hebrew #3034)
used only as denominative from 3027; literally, to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands)
KJV usage: cast (out), (make) confess(-ion), praise, shoot, (give) thank(-ful, -s, -sgiving).
Pronounce: yaw-daw'
Origin: a primitive root
thee, death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
can not celebrate
halal (Hebrew #1984)
to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify
KJV usage: (make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(- ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine.
Pronounce: haw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root
thee: they that go down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
into the pit
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
cannot hope
sabar (Hebrew #7663)
a primitive root; to scrutinize; by implication (of watching) to expect (with hope and patience)
KJV usage: hope, tarry, view, wait.
Pronounce: saw-bar'
Origin: erroneously shabar (Nehemiah 2:13, 15) {shaw-bar'}
for thy truth
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
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Psa. 6:5• 5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? (Psa. 6:5)

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Death,
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Pit,
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Cross References

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the grave.
Psa. 6:5• 5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? (Psa. 6:5)
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Psa. 30:9• 9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? (Psa. 30:9)
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Psa. 88:11• 11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? (Psa. 88:11)
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Psa. 115:17‑18• 17The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
 18But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the Lord. (Psa. 115:17‑18)
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Eccl. 9:10• 10Whatsoever 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. (Eccl. 9:10)
they that.
Num. 16:33• 33They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. (Num. 16:33)
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Prov. 14:32• 32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. (Prov. 14:32)
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Matt. 8:12• 12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 8:12)
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Matt. 25:46• 46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Matt. 25:46)
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Luke 16:26‑31• 26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
 27Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
 28For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
 29Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
 30And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
 31And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. (Luke 16:26‑31)

J. N. Darby Translation

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