Psalms 88:10

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

11Shall thy lovingkindness 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 be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof 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 praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence;

Psalms 143:6I spread forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah

Isaiah 38:18For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

Mark 5:35While he yet spake, they come from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest 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 →

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