Psalms 88:12 · KJV
“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”
— Psalms 88:12
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? {or} thy faithfulness in destruction?
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
Psalms 88 — Context
Wilt 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.
14LORD, why castest thou off my soul? {why} hidest thou thy face from me?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Matthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Ecclesiastes 2:16
For {there is} no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now {is} in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise {man}? as the fool.
Psalms 31:12
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. {a broken...: Heb. a vessel that perisheth}
Isaiah 8:22
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and {they shall be} driven to darkness.
Psalms 88:5
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. {from: or, by}
Job 10:21-22
Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Psalms 143:3
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.