诗篇 88:11

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

在墳墓裡有人述說你的慈愛嗎？在滅亡之地（“滅亡之地”原文作“亞巴頓”）有人述說你的信實嗎？

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
岂 能 在 坟 墓 里 述 说 你 的 慈 爱 麽 ？ 岂 能 在 灭 亡 中 述 说 你 的 信 实 麽 ？

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Do you show your miracles for the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you? Selah ¹¹ Will your love be told in the grave? Will your loyalty be told in the place of death? ¹² Will your miracles be known in the dark grave? Will your goodness be known in the land of forgetfulness? ¹³ But, Lord , I have called out to you for help; every morning I pray to you. ¹⁴ Lord , why do you reject me? Why do you hide from me? ¹⁵ I have been weak and dying since I was young. I suffer from your terrors, and I am helpless. ¹⁶ You have been angry with me, and your terrors have destroyed me. ¹⁷ They surround me daily like a flood; they are all around me. ¹⁸ You have taken away my loved ones and friends. Darkness is my only friend.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in destruction: Psalms 55:23, Psalms 73:18, Job 21:30, Job 26:6, Proverbs 15:11, Matthew 7:13, Romans 9:22, 2 Peter 2:1

Reciprocal: Job 10:21 - the land Job 35:15 - in great Psalms 143:7 - unto them Ecclesiastes 9:5 - the dead Isaiah 38:18 - the grave

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?.... Where he saw himself now going, and where should he be detained, and not raised out of it, the lovingkindness of God to him, as his Son, and as man and Mediator, and to his people in the gift and mission of him to be their Saviour and Redeemer, how would that be declared and made known? now it is, Christ being raised, and his ministers having a commission from him to preach the Gospel, in which the lovingkindness of God is abundantly manifested:

or thy faithfulness in destruction? the grave, so called from dead bodies being cast into it, and wasted, consumed, and destroyed in it: the meaning may be, that should he be laid in the grave, and there putrefy and rot, and not be raised again, where would be the faithfulness of God to his purposes, to his covenant and promises, to him his Son, and to his people?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? - Thy goodness; thy mercy. Shall anyone make it known there? shall it there be celebrated?

Or thy faithfulness in destruction? - In the place where destruction seems to reign; where human hopes perish; where the body moulders back to dust. Shall anyone there dwell on the fidelity - the truthfulness - of God, in such a way as to honor him? It is implied here that, according to the views then entertained of the state of the dead, those things would not occur. According to what is now made known to us of the unseen world it is true that the mercy of God will not be made known to the dead; that the Gospel will not be preached to them; that no messenger from God will convey to them the offers of salvation. Compare Luke 16:28-31.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 88:11. Or thy faithfulness in destruction? — Faithfulness in God refers as well to his fulfilling his threatenings as to his keeping his promises. The wicked are threatened with such punishments as their crimes have deserved; but annihilation is no punishment. God therefore does not intend to annihilate the wicked; their destruction cannot declare the faithfulness of God.