KJV King James Version
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.
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Psalm 88:10
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
WEB World English Bible
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 88
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.
8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah.
11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?
12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
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Psalm 6:5For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?Isaiah 26:19Thy dead [men] shall live, [together with] my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew [is as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.Psalm 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?Isaiah 38:18-19For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.1 Corinthians 15:52-57In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.Psalm 115:17The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.Mark 5:35-36While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s [house certain] which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?Ezekiel 37:1-14The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of bones,Psalm 118:17I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.Luke 7:12-16Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.Job 14:7-12For 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.
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