Psalm 88:10 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁰ Dost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise thee? Selah

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Will You show wonders to the dead? Shall the departed arise and praise You? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee? [Selah

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Do you work wonders for the dead? Do ghosts rise up and give you thanks? Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves.

Psalm 88:10 Cross References

Psalm 115:17

The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any that go down into silence.

Psalm 118:17

I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.

Psalm 143:6

I stretch out my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee like a parched land. Selah

Psalm 30:9

“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise thee? Will it tell of thy faithfulness?

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who can give thee praise?

Psalm 86:3

be gracious to me, O Lord, for to thee do I cry all the day.

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For thy dew is a dew of light, and on the land of the shades thou wilt let it fall.