Psalms 88:10
Wilt thou shewe a miracle to the dead? or shall the dead rise and prayse thee? Selah.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
In Context
11Shall thy louing kindenes be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnes in destruction?
Cross References
Job 14:7For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.
Psalms 30:9What profite is there in my blood, when I go downe to the pit? shall the dust giue thankes vnto thee? or shall it declare thy trueth?
Psalms 115:17The dead prayse not the Lord, neither any that goe downe into the place of silence.
Psalms 143:6I stretche forth mine hands vnto thee: my soule desireth after thee, as the thirstie land. Selah.
Isaiah 38:18For the graue cannot confesse thee: death cannot praise thee: they that goe downe into the pit, cannot hope for thy trueth.
Mark 5:35While hee yet spake, there came from the same ruler of the Synagogues house certaine which said, Thy daughter is dead: why diseasest thou the Master any 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 →