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Isaiah 38:18

Verse 18 of 22. The 38th of 66 chapters in Isaiah, in The Major Prophets.

14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

16O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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

19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

20The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

21For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?

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Isaiah 38:18 in the 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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Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:18

That it was the lengthening out of his opportunity to glorify God in this world, which he made the business, and pleasure, and end of life. [1.] If this sickness had been his death, it would have put a period to that course of service for the glory of God and the good of the church which he was now pursuing, v. 18.

Read Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:9–22: Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. (b. c. 710.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.