Psalms 88:11 · KJV
“Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? {or} thy faithfulness in destruction?”
— Psalms 88:11
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise {and} praise thee? Selah.
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Psalms 88 — Context
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
10Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise {and} praise thee? Selah.
11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? {or} thy faithfulness in destruction?
12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
Cross References
Matthew 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide {is} the gate, and broad {is} the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: {strait: or, narrow}
Psalms 55:23
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. {bloody...: Heb. men of bloods and deceit} {shall...: Heb. shall not half their days}
Job 26:6
Hell {is} naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Romans 9:22
{What} if God, willing to shew {his} wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: {fitted: or, made up}
Job 21:30
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. {wrath: Heb. wraths}
Psalms 73:18
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Proverbs 15:11
Hell and destruction {are} before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?