KJV King James Version
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?
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Psalm 88:11
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
WEB World English Bible
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
ASV American Standard Version
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?
Surrounding context — Psalm 88
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.
14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me?
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2 Peter 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.Psalm 73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.Matthew 7:13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:Romans 9:22[What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:Psalm 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.Job 26:6Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.Proverbs 15:11Hell and destruction [are] before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
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