Psalms 88:10

(88:11) Wilt thou display wonders to the dead? shall the departed arise [and] thank thee? Selah.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9(88:10) My eye languisheth by reason of affliction: I call on thee, O Lord, every day, I stretch out unto thee my hands.

11(88:12) Shall thy kindness be related in the grave? thy faithfulness in the place of corruption?

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Cross References

Job 14:7For there is hope for the tree: if it be cut down, it may still sprout again, while its young shoot will not cease.

Psalms 30:9(30:10) What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the grave? Shall the dust thank thee? shall it announce thy truth?

Psalms 115:17Not the dead can praise the Lord, nor all those that go down into the silence [of death].

Psalms 143:6I spread forth my hands unto thee: my soul [longeth] for thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Isaiah 38:18For the nether world will not thank thee, death will not praise thee: they that go down into the pit will not hope for thy truth.

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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