Psalm 88:12 “Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in t…”

Psalm 88:12

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the land of obliuion?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“dark”

Ecclesiastes 9:5 Matthew 8:12 Psalm 143:3 Isaiah 8:22 Jude 1:13 Psalm 31:12

Ecclesiastes 9:5 · BSB

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

Matthew 8:12 · BSB

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Psalm 143:3 · BSB

For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

Isaiah 8:22 · BSB

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

Jude 1:13 · BSB

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.

Psalm 31:12 · BSB

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

Also

Psalm 88:5

Psalm 88:5 · BSB

I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon ?

13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.

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