Psalms 88:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks?(Selah)

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֵינִ֥י דָאֲבָ֗ה מִנִּ֫י עֹ֥נִי קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהוָ֣ה בְּכָל־י֑וֹם שִׁטַּ֖חְתִּי אֵלֶ֣יךָ כַפָּֽי׃

Transliteration

ʿênî dāʾăvâ from ʿōnî qərāʾtîkā YHWH in-all-day šiṭṭaḥtî to-you kappāy

Grammar Details

• *ʿênî*: noun, feminine, singular with 1st person singular suffix - my eye
• *dāʾăvâ*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - wastes away/languishes
• *ʿōnî*: noun, masculine, singular - affliction/misery
• *qərāʾtîkā*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - I call you
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *šiṭṭaḥtî*: verb, Piel perfect, 1st person singular - I spread out/stretch out
• *kappāy*: noun, feminine, dual with 1st person singular suffix - my palms/hands

Word Meanings

• *dāʾăvâ*: wastes away/languishes/grows dim/fails
• *ʿōnî*: affliction/misery/poverty/distress
• *qərāʾtîkā*: I call you/cry out to you/invoke you
• *šiṭṭaḥtî*: I spread out/stretch out/extend

Referenced Verses

• Ps 6:5 : 5 For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?
• Ps 30:9 : 9 “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?
• Ps 115:17 : 17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.
• Ps 118:17 : 17 I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the LORD has done.
• Isa 26:19 : 19 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.
• Isa 38:18-19 : 18 Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness. 19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
• Ezek 37:1-9 : 1 The Valley of Dry Bones The hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. 2 He made me walk all around among them. I realized there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry. 3 He said to me,“Son of man, can these bones live?” I said to him,“Sovereign LORD, you know.” 4 Then he said to me,“Prophesy over these bones, and tell them:‘Dry bones, listen to the LORD’s message. 5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live. 6 I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’” 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. There was a sound when I prophesied– I heard a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them. 9 He said to me,“Prophesy to the breath,– prophesy, son of man– and say to the breath:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army. 11 Then he said to me,“Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying,‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel. 13 Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people. 14 I will place my breath in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the LORD– I have spoken and I will act, declares the LORD.’”
• Mark 5:35-36 : 35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house saying,“Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?” 36 But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue leader,“Do not be afraid; just believe.”
• Luke 7:12-16 : 12 As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother(who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her,“Do not weep.” 14 Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said,“Young man, I say to you, get up!” 15 So the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. 16 Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying,“A great prophet has appeared among us!” and“God has come to help his people!”
• 1 Cor 15:52-57 : 52 in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen,“Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
• Job 14:7-9 : 7 The Inevitability of Death“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. 8 Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil, 9 at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant. 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he? 11 As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.