Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.

King James Version

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Holman Bible

Do You work wonders for the dead?
Do departed spirits rise up to praise You?Selah

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.

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.

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

A Cry Of Desperation

9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon thee; I have stretched out my hands unto thee. 10 Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah.
11 Shall thy mercy be declared in the grave? or thy truth in hell?


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 yet hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its tender branch will not cease.

Psalm 115:17

The dead shall not praise JAH, neither any that go down into silence.

Psalm 118:17

I shall not die, but live and declare the works of JAH.

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead shall live, and together with my body they shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the covering of light, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 38:18-19

For the grave shall not confess thee, nor shall death praise thee; nor shall those that go down into the pit wait for thy truth.

Ezekiel 37:1-14

And the hand of the LORD was upon me and took me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the midst of a field which was full of bones,

Mark 5:35-36

While he yet spoke, there came from the ruler of the synagogue's house certain who said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?

Luke 7:12-16

Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow; and many people from the city were with her.

1 Corinthians 15:52-57

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised without corruption, and we shall be changed.

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