Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks? (Selah)
The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.
I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the Lord has done.
I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.
“What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?
For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry out to you all day long!
Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.