Isaiah 38:18
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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Isaiah 38:18
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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Isaiah 38:19
The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
Psalms 30:9
“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Psalms 30:10
Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.”
Psalms 115:17
The dead don’t praise Yah, nor any who go down into silence,
Psalms 115:18
but we will bless Yah, from this time forward and forever more. Praise Yah!
Psalms 88:10
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
Psalms 88:11
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Psalms 88:12
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Psalms 118:17
I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Psalms 30:12
to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
John 9:4
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
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Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Psalms 28:1
To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalms 88:4
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
Psalms 88:5
set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
Psalms 143:7
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
Isaiah 14:15
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
Psalms 30:3
Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Isaiah 14:9
Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Job 7:21
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Job 17:16
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
Psalms 69:15
Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
Psalms 86:13
For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Revelation 20:3
and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
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Isaiah 38:10
I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
Isaiah 38:11
I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Isaiah 38:13
I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
Isaiah 38:14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
Isaiah 38:15
What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
Isaiah 38:16
Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them. You restore me, and cause me to live.
Isaiah 38:20
Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.
Isaiah 38:21
Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”
Isaiah 38:22
Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to Yahweh’s house?”
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Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
Job 33:24
then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, Yahweh my God.
Job 33:18
He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Job 33:19
“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
Job 33:20
so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
Job 33:21
His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
Job 33:22
Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
Psalms 56:13
For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
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Isaiah 14:19
But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
Psalms 30:4
Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.
Isaiah 28:15
“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and we are in agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’ ”
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Job 14:7
“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
Job 14:8
Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
Job 14:9
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.
Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,
Job 14:12
so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
Lamentations 3:21
This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
Lamentations 3:22
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
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Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
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Genesis 2:6
but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
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1 Kings 2:9
Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”
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Luke 16:26
Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
Luke 16:27
“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house—
Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
Luke 16:29
“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
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Philippians 1:22
But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
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