Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (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.
American Standard Version
Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah
Amplified
Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? 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 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you. 10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) 11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 6:5
For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
Job 14:7-12
For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.
Psalm 115:17
The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.
Psalm 118:17
Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
Isaiah 38:18-19
For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of the Lord had been on me, and he took me out in the spirit of the Lord and put me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones;
Mark 5:35-36
And while he was still talking, they came from the ruler of the Synagogue's house, saying, Your daughter is dead: why are you still troubling the Master?
Luke 7:12-16
Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.
1 Corinthians 15:52-57
In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.