Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
New American Standard Bible
And Your
King James Version
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Holman Bible
or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
International Standard Version
Can your awesome deeds be known in darkness or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
American Standard Version
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Amplified
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
Bible in Basic English
May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
Darby Translation
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Julia Smith Translation
Shall thy wonder be known in darkness, and thy justice in a land of oblivion?
King James 2000
Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Are your wonders known in the darkness, [or] your righteousness in [the] land of forgetfulness?
Modern King James verseion
Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? Or thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?
NET Bible
Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?
New Heart English Bible
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
The Emphasized Bible
Shall any wonder of thine, be known in the dark? Or, thy righteousness, in the land of forgetfulness?
Webster
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
World English Bible
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Youngs Literal Translation
Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 88:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Of Desperation
11 Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But to thee, O LORD, I have cried, and in the morning my prayer shall come before thee.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Job 10:21-22
before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Psalm 31:12
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
Psalm 88:5
cast off among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom thou remember no more, and they are cut off from thy hand.
Psalm 143:3
For the enemy has persecuted my soul. He has smitten my life down to the ground. He has made me to dwell in dark places as those who have been long dead.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool!
Ecclesiastes 8:10
So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.
Isaiah 8:22
And they shall look to the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and into thick darkness [to be] driven away.
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea foaming out their own shame, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.