Psalm 88:12

Easy To Read Version

Dead people lying in darkness\par can’t see the amazing things you do.\par Dead people in the World of the Forgotten\par can’t talk about your goodness.\par

Cross References

Psalm 143:3

But my enemies are chasing me.\par They have crushed my life into the dirt.\par They are pushing me into the dark grave,\par like people who died long ago.\par

Psalm 31:12

People have completely forgotten me,\par like some lost tool.\par

Psalm 88:5

Look for me among the dead people.\par I am like a dead body lying in the grave,\par one of the dead people you forgot,\par cut off from you and your care.\par

Ecclesiastes 2:16

The wise man and the foolish person will both die! And people will not remember either the wise man or the foolish person forever. In the future, people will forget everything they did. So both the wise man and the foolish person are really the same.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

I also saw great and beautiful funerals for evil people. While the people were going home after the funeral services, they said good things about the evil people that had died. This happened even in the same towns where the evil people had done many, many bad things. That is senseless.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

Living people know that they will die. But dead people don’t know anything. Dead people have no more reward. People will soon forget them.

Isaiah 8:22

If they look around them at their land, then they will see only trouble and depressing darkness—the dark sadness of people forced to leave their country. And the people that are trapped in that darkness will not be able to free themselves.

Matthew 8:12

And those people (the Jews) that should have the kingdom will be thrown out. They will be thrown outside into the darkness. In that place people will cry and grind their teeth \{with pain\}.”