Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou do wonder to the dead? if the shades shall arise, shall they praise thee? Silence.
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.
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 languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee. 10 Wilt thou do wonder to the dead? if the shades shall arise, shall they praise thee? Silence. 11 Shall thy mercy be recounted in the grave, thy faithfulness in destruction?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 6:5
For in death none remembering thee: in hades who shall give thanks to thee?
Psalm 30:9
What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?
Job 14:7-12
For there is hope for a tree if it shall be cut down, and it shall yet revive, and its suckers shall not cease.
Psalm 115:17
The dead shall not praise Jah, and all going down to silence.
Psalm 118:17
I shall not die, for I shall live and I shall recount the works of Jah.
Isaiah 26:19
Thy dead shall live, with my corpse shall they rise. Awake and shout, ye dwelling in dust: for the dew of brightness is thy dew, and the land of the shades shall fall.
Isaiah 38:18-19
For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.
Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he will bring me forth in the spirit of Jehovah, and he will set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was filled with bones.
Mark 5:35-36
He yet speaking, they come from the ruler of the synagogue, saying, That thy daughter is dead: why yet dost thou importune the Teacher?
Luke 7:12-16
And as he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, he dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she a widow; and a sufficient crowd of the city was with her.
1 Corinthians 15:52-57
In an atom, in the twinkling of the eye, in the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.