Psalms 88:10
For the dead can you work wonders? Can the shades rise again to praise you? Selah
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
In Context
9my eyes are wasted with sorrow. I call on you, Lord, every day, spreading my hands out to you.
11Can your kindness be told in the grave, your faithfulness in the tomb?
Cross References
Psalms 30:9“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Can you be praised by dust? Can it tell of your faithfulness?
Psalms 115:17The dead cannot praise the Lord, nor those who go down into silence.
Psalms 143:6I spread out my hands to you: I thirst for you, like parched earth. Selah
Mark 5:35Before he had finished speaking, some people from the house of the synagogue leader came and said, “Your daughter is dead! Why should you trouble the teacher further?”
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 →