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Psalms 88:12
12Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds? Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?
Context of Psalms 88:12
10Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you? 11Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction? Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion? 13But I cry to you for help, Lord; in the morning my prayer comes before you. 14Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me?
Read all of Psalms 88Psalms 88:12 word by word
הֲיִוָּדַ֣ע בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ פִּלְאֶ֑ךָ וְ֝צִדְקָתְךָ֗ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ נְשִׁיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 88:12
- Psalms 143:3The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.
- Job 10:21before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
- Matthew 8:12But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
- Psalms 88:5I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care.
- Psalms 31:12I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.
- Ecclesiastes 2:16For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered; the days have already come when both have been forgotten. Like the fool, the wise too must die!
- Ecclesiastes 8:10Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name 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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