Psalms 88:12

10 Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

11 Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon ?

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

13 But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.

14 Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
KJV
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
WEB
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
ASV
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
DARBY
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
BLB
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
ÅB
Mon din undergjerning blir kjent i mørket, og din rettferdighet i glemselens land?
OTB
Vil dine under bli åpenbart i mørket?
Og din rettferdighet i glemselens land?
B1930
Mon din undergjerning blir kjent i mørket, og din rettferdighet i glemselens land?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Ecclesiastes 9:5

    For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

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  • Matthew 8:12

    But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

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  • Job 10:21–22

    before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

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  • Ecclesiastes 2:16

    For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

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  • Isaiah 8:22

    Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

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  • Psalms 88:5

    I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

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  • Jude 1:13

    They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

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  • Psalms 31:12

    I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

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