Psalms 88:12
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 88 connects to 10 cross-references. A Korahite lament of Heman the Ezrahite, one of the darkest psalms in the Psalter, expressing unrelenting suffering and divine abandonment. Unlike most laments it contains no turn toward confidence or praise. The psalmist is counted among those going to …
Other Translations
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
Cross References
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light …
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven …
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness …
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me …
Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are …
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more …
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they …
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is …