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Isaiah 38:18
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Isaiah 38:18
18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
18For the graue cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that goe downe into the pit cannot hope for thy trueth.
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Isaiah 38:18
A place of burial; serious, weighty, or sober; as a verb, to carve or engrave.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Is unable to; is not able to.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Approval, honour, or commendation expressed in words or song; also to commend, extol, or glorify.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To praise, proclaim, or honour solemnly.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Confident expectation or desire for good; as a verb, to expect with trust.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is true; conformity to fact, reality, faithfulness, or God's revealed word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study10Whatsoever 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.
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Open the full verse study9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
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Open the full verse study5For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
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Open the full verse study17The 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.
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Open the full verse study10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
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Open the full verse study33They, 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.
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Open the full verse study26And 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.
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Open the full verse study46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
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Open the full verse study12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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Open the full verse study32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
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