Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah
New American Standard Bible
Will
King James Version
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
Holman Bible
Do departed spirits rise up to praise You?
International Standard Version
Can you perform wonders for the dead? Can departed spirits stand up to praise you? Interlude
A Conservative Version
Will thou show wonders to the dead? Shall those who are deceased arise and praise thee? Selah.
Amplified
Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.
Bible in Basic English
Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
Darby Translation
Wilt thou do wonders to the dead? shall the shades arise and praise thee? Selah.
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou do wonder to the dead? if the shades shall arise, shall they praise thee? Silence.
King James 2000
Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do you work wonders for the dead? Or do [the] departed spirits rise up [to] praise you? Selah
Modern King James verseion
For will You do wonders to the dead? Shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Dost thou show wonders among the dead? Can the Physicians raise them up again, that they may praise thee? Selah.
NET Bible
Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks? (Selah)
New Heart English Bible
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.
The Emphasized Bible
For the dead, wilt thou perform a wonder? Or shall, the shades, arising, give thee thanks? Selah.
Webster
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
World English Bible
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.
Youngs Literal Translation
To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 88:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Of Desperation
9 Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee. 10 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?
Psalm 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Job 14:7-12
For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Psalm 115:17
The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;
Psalm 118:17
I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of Jehovah.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Isaiah 38:18-19
For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
Mark 5:35-36
While he yet spake, they come from the ruler of the synagogue's house'saying, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Teacher any further?
Luke 7:12-16
Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out one that was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
1 Corinthians 15:52-57
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.