Psalm 88:12 Parallel Translations

Will anyone know about your miracles in that dark place or about your righteousness in the place where forgotten people live?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

YLT:

Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Psalm 88:12 Cross References

XREF:

Job 10:21 Before I go-- and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

Psalm 88:6 You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land {k} of forgetfulness?
(k) That is, in the grave, where only the body lies without all sense and remembrance.

WES:

88:12 Forgetfulness - In the grave, where men are forgotten by their nearest relations.

MHC:

88:10-18 Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favours in comfort, nor return them in praise. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not come speedily. Though our prayers are not soon answered, yet we must not give over praying. The greater our troubles, the more earnest and serious we should be in prayer. Nothing grieves a child of God so much as losing sight of him; nor is there any thing he so much dreads as God's casting off his soul. If the sun be clouded, that darkens the earth; but if the sun should leave the earth, what a dungeon would it be! Even those designed for God's favours, may for a time suffer his terrors. See how deep those terrors wounded the psalmist. If friends are put far from us by providences, or death, we have reason to look upon it as affliction. Such was the calamitous state of a good man. But the pleas here used were peculiarly suited to Christ. And we are not to think that the holy Jesus suffered for us only at Gethsemane and on Calvary. His whole life was labour and sorrow; he was afflicted as never man was, from his youth up. He was prepared for that death of which he tasted through life. No man could share in the sufferings by which other men were to be redeemed. All forsook him, and fled. Oftentimes, blessed Jesus, do we forsake thee; but do not forsake us, O take not thy Holy Spirit from us.

CONC:

Dark Darkness Dead Deeds Forgetfulness Memory Oblivion Righteous Righteousness Saving Wonders

Dark Darkness Dead Deeds Help Memory Righteous Righteousness Saving Wonders

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