Psalms 88:10

Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9Mine eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you.

11Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? or your 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 you? shall it declare your truth?

Psalms 115:17The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Psalms 143:6I stretch forth my hands unto you: my soul thirsts after you, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Isaiah 38:18For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

Mark 5:35While he yet spoke, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain which said, Your daughter is dead: why trouble you 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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