Psalms 88:10 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 88:10

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

KJV

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YLT

To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

ASV

Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? [Selah

WEB

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

DBT

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

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

17 verses on the floor

Psalms 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Psalms 115:17
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
Psalms 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?

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Voices3

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shall the dead--the remains of ghosts. arise--literally, "rise up," that is, as dead persons. 11, 12. amplify the foregoing, the whole purport (as Ps 6:5) being to contrast death and life as seasons for praising God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

A man of prayer, one that gave himself to prayer at all times, but especially now that he was in affliction; for is any afflicted? let him pray. It is his comfort that he had prayed; it is his complaint that, notwithstanding his prayer, he was still in affliction. Very earnest in prayer: " I have cried unto thee (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But shall thy lovingkindness to thy people be declared in the grave, either by those or to those that lie buried there? And thy faithfulness to thy promise, shall that be told in destruction? shall thy wonders be wrought in the dark, or known there, and thy righteousness in the grave, which is the land of forgetfulness, where men remember nothing, nor are themselves remembered?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 88:10PSA 6:5 PSA 88:10-12
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 88:10ISA 26:19 DAN 12:2
PSA 88:10PSA 6:5 PSA 115:17
PSA 88:10ISA 26:19 EZE 37:1-14
PSA 88:10PSA 6:5 ECC 9:10
PSA 88:10PSA 6:5 PSA 30:9
PSA 88:10ISA 26:19 MAT 27:52
PSA 88:10ISA 26:19 EPH 5:14

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