Psalms 88:10

Will thou show wonders to the dead? Shall those who are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

In Context

9My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.

11Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction?

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Cross References

Job 14:7For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease.

Psalms 30:9What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

Psalms 115:17The dead do not praise LORD, nor any who go down into silence,

Psalms 143:6I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul [is] as a weary land for thee. Selah.

Isaiah 38:18For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Mark 5:35While he still spoke, they come from the synagogue ruler saying, Thy daughter died, why still trouble the teacher?

Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:2-10

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. 1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in… Read the whole commentary →

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