Psalms 88 · Verse 11

Psalms 88:11

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
Psalms 88:11, King James Version

Psalms 88:11 in other translations

BSBCan Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
WEBIs your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?
ASVShall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?
YLTIs Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?
DARBYShall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? thy faithfulness in Destruction?
BBEWill the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
WebsterShall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

What does Psalms 88:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 88:11-12
11-12. amplify the foregoing, the whole purport (as Psa 6:5) being to contrast death and life as seasons for praising God.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Or thy faithfulness in destruction? - Faithfulness in God refers as well to his fulfilling his threatenings as to his keeping his promises. The wicked are threatened with such punishments as their crimes have deserved; but annihilation is no punishment. God therefore does not intend to annihilate the wicked; their destruction cannot declare the faithfulness of God.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 88:10-18

Departed souls may declare God's faithfulness, justice, and lovingkindness; but deceased bodies can neither receive God's favours in comfort, nor return them in praise. The psalmist resolved to continue in prayer, and the more so, because deliverance did not come speedily. Though our prayers are not soon answered, yet we must not give over praying. The greater our troubles, the more earnest and serious we should be…

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Psalms 88:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַיְסֻפַּ֣רhay.su.Par¿ will it be recountedH5608
בַּקֶּ֣בֶרba.Ke.verin the graveH6913
חַסְדֶּ֑ךָchas.De.khacovenant loyalty yourH2617
אֱ֝מֽוּנָתְךָ֗'e.mu.na.te.khafaithfulness yourH530
בָּאֲבַדּֽוֹן\׃ba.'a.va.Donin <the> AbaddonH11

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 88:11

  • Proverbs 15:11

    Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

  • Psalms 55:23

    But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

  • Matthew 7:13

    Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

  • Romans 9:22

    What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

  • Job 21:30

    That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • 2 Peter 2:1

    But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

  • Psalms 73:18

    Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

  • Job 26:6

    Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
in destruction.
55:23; 73:18; Job 21:30; 26:6; Pr 15:11; Mt 7:13; Ro 9:22; 2Pe 2:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 88:10

    Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

  • Psalms 88:11

    Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

  • Psalms 88:12

    Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

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Psalms 88:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Será contada en el sepulcro tu misericordia, ó tu verdad en la perdición?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Feras-tu des merveilles pour les morts? ou les trépassés se lèveront-ils pour te célébrer? Sélah.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wird deine Güte erzählt werden im Grabe, im Abgrund deine Treue?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Tu humiliasti, sicut vulneratum, superbum; in brachio virtutis tuæ dispersisti inimicos tuos.