the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
King James Version
Psalms 88:12
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- BakerEncyclopedias:
- InternationalParallel Translations
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall Your wonders be known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
The dead who lie in darkness cannot see the amazing things you do. Those in the world of the forgotten cannot talk about your goodness.
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall thy wonders be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnesse in the land of forgetfulnesse?
Maye thy wonderous workes be knowne in the darcke, or thy righteousnes in the londe where all thinges are forgotte?
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?
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
Shall your wonders be known in the dark? And your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?
Do they know of your miracles or your saving power in the dark world below where all is forgotten?
Will your grace be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the land of obliuion?
Thy wonders shall be known in the dark, and thy righteousness in the land that has been forsaken.
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall Thy mercy be declared in the grave? or Thy faithfulness in destruction?
Can the darkness speak of your wonderful deeds? Can anyone in the land of forgetfulness talk about your righteousness?
Will Your great works be known in the darkness, and Your right and good works in the land where all is forgotten?
Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?
Shall any wonder of thine, be known in the dark? Or, thy righteousness, in the land of forgetfulness?
(87-13) Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Will your miracles be known in the dark grave? Will your goodness be known in the land of forgetfulness?
Are your miracles seen in that place of darkness or your goodness in the land of the forgotten?
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
Whether thi merueilis schulen be knowun in derknessis; and thi riytfulnesse in the lond of foryetyng?
Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
dark: Psalms 143:3, Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Isaiah 8:22, Matthew 8:12, Jude 1:13
in the land: Psalms 88:5, Psalms 31:12, Ecclesiastes 2:16, Ecclesiastes 8:10, Ecclesiastes 9:5
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?.... A description of the grave again; see Job 10:21, The sense may be, should he continue in the dark and silent grave, how would the wonders of the grace of God, of electing, redeeming, justifying, pardoning, and adopting grace, be made known; the wonders of Christ's person and offices, and the wondrous things, and doctrines of the Gospel, relating thereunto? as the glory of these would be eclipsed, there would be none to publish them:
and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? the grave, where the dead lie, who, having lost all sense of things, forget what were done in this world, and they themselves are quickly forgotten by the living; and had Christ continued in this state, and had not risen again to our justification, how would his justifying righteousness have been revealed, as it is from faith to faith in the Gospel, which is therefore called the word and ministration of righteousness?
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? - In the dark world; in “the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and where the light is as darkness.” Job 10:21-22. “And thy righteousness.” The justice of thy character; or, the ways in which thou dost maintain and manifest thy righteous character.
In the land of forgetfulness - Of oblivion; where the memory has decayed, and where the remembrance of former things is blotted out. This is a part of the general description, illustrating the ideas then entertained of the state of the dead; that they would be weak and feeble; that they could see nothing; that even the memory would fail, and the recollection of former things pass from the mind. All these are images of the grave as it appears to man when he has not the clear and full light of revelation; and the grave is all this - a dark and cheerless abode - all abode of fearfulness and gloom - when the light of the great truths of the Gospel is not suffered to fall upon it. That the psalmist dreaded this is clear, for he had not yet the full light of revealed truth in regard to the grave, and it seemed to him to be a gloomy abode. That people without the Gospel ought to dread it, is clear, for when the grave is not illuminated with Christian truth and hope, it is a place from which man by nature shrinks back, and it is not wonderful that a wicked man dreads to die.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 88:12. The land of forgetfulness? — The place of separate spirits, or the invisible world. The heathens had some notion of this state. They feigned a river in the invisible world, called Lethe, ληθη, which signifies oblivion, and that those who drank of it remembered no more any thing relative to their former state.
----------Animae, quibus altera fato
Corpora debentur, lethaei ad fluminis undam
Securos latices et longa oblivia potant.
VIRG. AEn. vi. 713.
To all those souls who round the river wait
New mortal bodies are decreed by fate;
To yon dark stream the gliding ghosts repair,
And quaff deep draughts of long oblivion there.
