Psalms 88:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?”
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“Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 88:12 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 10:21before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
- Psalms 31:12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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