the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Psalms 88:11
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Will Your lovingkindness be recounted in the grave,Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue? or thy faythfulnes in destruction?
Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction?
Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction?
Shall Your mercy be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness amidst ruin?
The dead in their graves cannot talk about your faithful love. People in the world of the dead cannot talk about your faithfulness.
Is your lovingkindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Shall thy louing kindnesse be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnesse in destruction?
Maye thy louynge kyndnes be shewed in the graue, or thy faithfulnesse in destruccion?
class="psalm-title"> A Korah Prayer of Heman God , you're my last chance of the day. I spend the night on my knees before you. Put me on your salvation agenda; take notes on the trouble I'm in. I've had my fill of trouble; I'm camped on the edge of hell. I'm written off as a lost cause, one more statistic, a hopeless case. Abandoned as already dead, one more body in a stack of corpses, And not so much as a gravestone— I'm a black hole in oblivion. You've dropped me into a bottomless pit, sunk me in a pitch-black abyss. I'm battered senseless by your rage, relentlessly pounded by your waves of anger. You turned my friends against me, made me horrible to them. I'm caught in a maze and can't find my way out, blinded by tears of pain and frustration. I call to you, God ; all day I call. I wring my hands, I plead for help. Are the dead a live audience for your miracles? Do ghosts ever join the choirs that praise you? Does your love make any difference in a graveyard? Is your faithful presence noticed in the corridors of hell? Are your marvelous wonders ever seen in the dark, your righteous ways noticed in the Land of No Memory? I'm standing my ground, God , shouting for help, at my prayers every morning, on my knees each daybreak. Why, God , do you turn a deaf ear? Why do you make yourself scarce? For as long as I remember I've been hurting; I've taken the worst you can hand out, and I've had it. Your wildfire anger has blazed through my life; I'm bleeding, black-and-blue. You've attacked me fiercely from every side, raining down blows till I'm nearly dead. You made lover and neighbor alike dump me; the only friend I have left is Darkness.
Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
Shall your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?
Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead?
Are your love and loyalty announced in the world of the dead?
Will you perform wonders for the dead? Can the ghosts of the dead rise up and praise you? (Selah)
Shall thy louing kindenes be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnes in destruction?
They that are in the graves shall declare thy lovingkindness, and thy faithfulness in destruction.
Is your lovingkindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
Wilt Thou work wonders for the dead? Or shall the shades arise and give Thee thanks? Selah
Can those in the grave declare your unfailing love? Can they proclaim your faithfulness in the place of destruction?
Will Your loving-kindness be told about in the grave, and how faithful You are in the place that destroys?
Shall any one declare thy mercy in the tomb? and thy truth in destruction?
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Shall Thy lovingkindness be recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness, in destruction?
(87-12) Shall any one in the sepulchre declare thy mercy: and thy truth in destruction?
Is your loyal love told in the grave, or your faithfulness in the underworld?
Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Will Your graciousness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Will your love be told in the grave? Will your loyalty be told in the place of death?
Is your constant love spoken of in the grave or your faithfulness in the place of destruction?
Will Your faithful love be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Whether ony man in sepulcre schal telle thi merci; and thi treuthe in perdicioun?
Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?
Is thy steadfast love declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in Abaddon?
Contextual Overview
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.
