Catholic Public Domain Version
"For Hell will not confess to you, and death will not praise you. Those who descend into the pit will not hope for your truth. "
— Isaiah 38:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”
“For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. ”
“For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.”
“Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.”
“For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.”
“For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.”
“For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”
What can I say, or what would he answer me, since he himself has done this? I will acknowledge to you all my years, in the bitterness of my soul.
O Lord, if such is life, and if the life of my spirit is of such a kind, may you correct me and may you cause me to live.
Behold, in peace my bitterness is most bitter. But you have rescued my soul, so that it would not perish. You have cast all my sins behind your back.
For Hell will not confess to you, and death will not praise you. Those who descend into the pit will not hope for your truth.
The living, the living, these will give praise to you, as I also do this day! The father will make the truth known to the sons.
O Lord, save me! And we will sing our psalms, all the days of our life, in the house of the Lord.”
Now Isaiah had ordered them to take a paste of figs, and to spread it like plaster over the wound, so that he would be healed.