Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For the dead, wilt thou perform a wonder? Or shall, the shades, arising, give thee thanks? 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.
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.
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, hath dimmed through affliction; I have called upon thee, O Yahweh, all day long, I have spread out, unto thee, my hands. 10 For the dead, wilt thou perform a wonder? Or shall, the shades, arising, give thee thanks? Selah. 11 Shall Thy lovingkindness be recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness, in destruction?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 6:5
For, in death, is no remembrance of thee, - In hades, who shall give thanks unto thee?
Psalm 30:9
What profit in my blood? in my going down into the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?
Job 14:7-12
Though there is - for a tree - hope, - if it should be cut down, that, again, it will grow, and, the tender branch thereof, will not cease;
Psalm 115:17
The dead, cannot praise Yah, nor any that go down into silence;
Psalm 118:17
I shall not die, but live, That I may recount the doings of Yah.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead, shall come to life again, My dead body, they shall arise, - Awake and shout for joy, ye that dwell in the dust For, a dew of light, is thy dew, And, earth, to the shades shall give birth.
Isaiah 38:18-19
For, hades, cannot praise thee Nor, death, celebrate thee, - They who go down to the pit cannot wait for thy faithfulness.
Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of Yahweh I being upon me, he carried me forth in the spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of a plain, - and the same was full of bones;
Mark 5:35-36
While yet he is speaking, they come from the synagogue-ruler's, saying - Thy daughter, is dead! Why, further, annoy the teacher?
Luke 7:12-16
Now, as he drew near unto the gate of the city, then lo! there was being brought forth, one dead, the only-begotten son of his mother, - and, she, was a widow; and, a considerable multitude of the city, was with her.
1 Corinthians 15:52-57
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, during the last trumpet; for it shall sound, and, the dead, shall be raised, incorruptible, and, we, shall be changed.