Psalms 88:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

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  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.
  • Isa 8:22 : 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.
  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
  • Ps 31:12 : 12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
  • Ps 88:5 : 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
  • Ps 143:3 : 3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
  • Eccl 2:16 : 16 Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!
  • Eccl 8:10 : 10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

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    10Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

    11Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

  • Ps 88:13-14
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    13But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.

    14Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

  • Ps 89:49
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    49Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Ps 13:1
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    1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

  • Ps 77:8-9
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    8Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

    9Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

  • Ps 92:2
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    2To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;

  • Job 38:19
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    19Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • Ps 88:5-6
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    5My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

    6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

  • Ps 89:5
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    5In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints.

  • Isa 57:12
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    12I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

  • Ps 77:11-12
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    71%

    11I will keep in mind the works of Jah: I will keep the memory of your wonders in the past.

    12I will give thought to all your work, while my mind goes over your acts of power.

  • Ps 44:24
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    24Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Ps 18:28
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    28You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

  • Job 14:13
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    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Ps 42:8-9
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    8But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

    9I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Job 22:11
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    11Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • Ps 90:8
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    8You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

  • Ps 71:19
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    19Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

  • 2 Sam 22:29
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    29For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

  • Ps 145:6-7
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    6Men will be talking of the power and fear of your acts; I will give word of your glory.

    7Their sayings will be full of the memory of all your mercy, and they will make songs of your righteousness.

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    6And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

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    46How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

  • Ps 130:3
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    3O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

  • Job 10:22
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    22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Isa 40:27
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    27Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

  • Job 7:21
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    21And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Jer 12:1
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    1You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

  • Ps 25:7
    69%

    7Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

  • Ps 6:5
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    5For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

  • Ps 9:12
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    12When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

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    1<A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

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    69%

    55I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

  • Job 11:16-17
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    16For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

    17And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

  • Job 22:13
    69%

    13And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

  • Isa 26:9
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    9In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

  • Ps 77:19
    68%

    19Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

  • Ps 30:9
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    9What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

  • Ps 112:4
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    4For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

  • Ps 143:8
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    8Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.