Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

For will You do wonders to the dead? Shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah.

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 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 because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called daily on You; I have stretched out my hands to You. 10 For will You do wonders to the dead? Shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah. 11 Shall Your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in ruin?

Cross References

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no memory of You; in the grave who shall give You thanks?

Psalm 30:9

What profit is in my blood, in going down to the pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth?

Job 14:7-12

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

Psalm 115:17

The dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do any who go down into silence.

Psalm 118:17

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

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead ones shall live, together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of lights, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Isaiah 38:18-19

For the grave cannot praise You, death can not rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

Ezekiel 37:1-14

The hand of Jehovah was on me, and brought me by the Spirit of Jehovah, and made me rest in the midst of a valley, and it was full of bones.

Mark 5:35-36

While He still spoke, they came from the synagogue ruler's house, saying, Your daughter is dead; why do you still trouble the Teacher?

Luke 7:12-16

And drawing near the gate of the city, even behold, one having died was being carried out, an only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a considerable crowd of the city was with her.

1 Corinthians 15:52-57

in a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet. For a trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.

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