Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

New American Standard Bible

Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

King James Version

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Holman Bible

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness
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?

A Conservative Version

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

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]?

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

Context Readings

A Cry Of Desperation

11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? 12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead? 13 But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.


Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

Job 10:21-22

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

Psalm 31:12

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

Psalm 88:5

My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

Ecclesiastes 8:10

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

Isaiah 8:22

And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

Matthew 8:12

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

Jude 1:13

Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

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