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Isaiah 38:18

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

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  1. Isaiah 38:16

    O 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.

  2. Isaiah 38:17

    Behold, 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.

  3. Isaiah 38:19

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

  4. Isaiah 38:20

    The 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.

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