Psalms 30:9 KJV — MannaFest

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?

KJV

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ASV

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

WEB

“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

YLT

`What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

DBT

What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

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?
Psalms 115:17–18
The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.
Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Psalms 88:10–12
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
Psalms 118:17
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Isa 38:18, the appeal for mercy is based on the destruction of his agency in praising God here, which death would produce. The terms expressing relief are poetical, and not to be pressed, though "dancing" is the translation of a word which means a lute, whose cheerful notes are contrasted with mourning, or (Am 5:16) wailing.

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

The promises of God's covenant cannot be performed to the dust. "Lord," says David, "if I die now, what will become of the promise made to me? Who shall declare the truth of that?" The best pleas in prayer are those that are taken from God's honour; and then we ask aright for life when we have that in view, that we may live and praise him.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Profit - What wilt thou gain by it? The dust - Shall they that are dead celebrate thy goodness in the land of the living? Or, shall my dust praise thee?

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Words6

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

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 30:9PSA 6:5 ECC 9:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 30:9PSA 118:17 PSA 6:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 30:9PSA 118:17 JHN 11:4
PSA 30:9PSA 6:5 PSA 88:10-12
PSA 30:9PSA 6:5 PSA 115:17
PSA 30:9PSA 118:17 PSA 71:17-18
PSA 30:9PSA 118:17 ISA 38:16-20
PSA 30:9PSA 118:17 HAB 1:12

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