Psalms 88:11
Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
BSB
ASV
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
KJV
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Thy tender goodness—who shall testify concerning it in that cold abode where the worm and corruption hold their riot? The living may indite "meditations among the Tombs", but the dead know nothing, and therefore can declare nothing. Or thy faithfulness in destruction? If the Lord suffered his servant to die before the divine promise was fulfilled, it would be quite impossible for his faithfulness to be proclaimed.
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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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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2 Peter 2:1Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
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Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only…
If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
and many false prophets will arise and mislead many.
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Proverbs 15:11Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!
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would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
