Psalms 88:10
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
World English Bible
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 dim from grief. I have called on you daily, LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.
11Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Cross References
Job 14:7“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
Psalms 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
Psalms 115:17The dead don’t praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence,
Psalms 143:6I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Isaiah 38:18For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
Mark 5:35While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house, saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”
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 →