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Isaiah 38:18-20
International Standard Version
Isaiah 38:18-20
International Standard Version
18 For Sheol[a] cannot thank you,
death cannot[b] sing your praise;
and[c] those who go down to the Pit[d] cannot hope
for your faithfulness.
19 The living—yes the living—they thank you,
just as I am doing today;
fathers will tell their children
about your faithfulness.
20 The Lord will save me,[e]
and we will play my music on strings
all the days of our lives
in the Lord’s Temple.[f]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 38:18 I.e. the realm of the afterlife
- Isaiah 38:18 So 1QIsaa LXX; implied in 1QIsab MT
- Isaiah 38:18 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks and
- Isaiah 38:18 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
- Isaiah 38:20 At this point a later scribe inserted into 1QIsaa a repetition of v. 19 and the beginning of v. 20, but with some different spellings and a word missing.
- Isaiah 38:20 The same second scribe continued with the rest of this verse; not originally in 1QIsaa.
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