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I Cry Out before You

Psalms 88:12

In 11 translations

BSB
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
KJV
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
WEB
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
ASV
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
LSV
Are Your wonders known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
YLT
Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
DBY
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
DRC87:13
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?
GNV
Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the land of obliuion?
JPS88:13
Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? and Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
LXXE87:13
Shall thy wonders be known in darkness? and thy righteousness in a forgotten land?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC88:13
הֲיִוָּדַ֣ע בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ פִּלְאֶ֑ךָ וְ֝צִדְקָתְךָ֗ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ נְשִׁיָּֽה׃KJV:Ps.88.12
LXX-Br87:13
Μὴ γνωσθήσεται ἐν τῷ σκότει τὰ θαυμάσιά σου, καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη σου ἐν γῇ ἐπιλελησμένῃ;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ecclesiastes 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
  • Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
  • Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Psalms 31:12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
  • Ecclesiastes 8:10Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
  • Psalms 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
  • Psalms 88:5I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.
  • Job 10:21–22before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom, to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
  • Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
  • Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 88:13 in some Bibles
  • 88:12 in most Bibles

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