New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 88:12
12Will Your wonders be made known in the 1darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalms 88:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- New International Version (NIV)Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Shall Your wonders be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Context of Psalms 88:12
10Will You perform wonders for the dead? Or will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah 11Will Your graciousness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13But I, Lord, have cried out to You for help, And in the morning my prayer comes before You. 14Lord, why do You reject my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
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הֲיִוָּדַ֣ע בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ פִּלְאֶ֑ךָ וְ֝צִדְקָתְךָ֗ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ נְשִׁיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 88:12
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.
- Job 10:21Before I go--and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.
- Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, churning up their own shameful deeds like dirty foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.
- Psalms 88:5Abandoned among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You no longer remember, And they are cut off from Your hand.
- Psalms 31:12I am forgotten like a dead person, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
- Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, along with the fool, since in the coming days everything will soon be forgotten. And how the wise and the fool alike die!
- Ecclesiastes 8:10So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they are soon forgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor do they have a reward any longer, for their memory is forgotten.
Commentaries on Psalms 88:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12The land of forgetfulness? - The place of separate spirits, or the invisible world. The heathens had some notion of this state. They feigned a river in the invisible world, called Lethe, , which signifies oblivion, and that those who drank of it remembered no more any thing relative to their former state. - Animae, quibus altera fato Corpora debentur, lethaei ad fluminis undam Securos latices et longa oblivia potant. Virg. Aen. 6: 713. To all those souls…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? - In the dark world; in “the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and where the light is as darkness.” Job 10:21-22. “And thy righteousness.” The justice of thy character; or, the ways in which thou dost maintain and manifest thy righteous character. In the land of forgetfulness - Of oblivion; where the memory has decayed, and where the remembrance of former things is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favours in comfort, nor return them in praise. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not come speedily. Though our prayers are not soon answered, yet we must not give over praying. The greater our troubles, the more earnest and serious we should be in prayer. Nothing grieves…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-12In his second charge, the psalmist claims that God has isolated him and caused his loneliness (compare Psalms 31:11; 38:11). In that culture, loneliness was a curse because relationships mattered more than personal success.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-1211-12. amplify the foregoing, the whole purport (as Psa 6:5) being to contrast death and life as seasons for praising God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 88
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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