New King James Version
Psalms 88:12
12Shall Your wonders be known in the dark? 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 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
10Will You work wonders for the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise You? Selah 11Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction? Shall Your wonders be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13But to You I have cried out, O Lord, And in the morning my prayer comes before You. 14Lord, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?
Read all of Psalms 88Psalms 88:12 word by word
הֲיִוָּדַ֣ע בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ פִּלְאֶ֑ךָ וְ֝צִדְקָתְךָ֗ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ נְשִׁיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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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 darkness, Like those who have long been dead.
- Job 10:21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, To the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
- Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Jude 1:13raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
- Psalms 88:5Adrift among the dead, Like the slain who lie in the grave, Whom You remember no more, And who are cut off from Your hand.
- Psalms 31:12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
- Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. And how does a wise man die? As the fool!
- Ecclesiastes 8:10Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of holiness, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing, And they have no more reward, For the memory of them 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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