Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
- BSB Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- NKJV Will You work wonders for the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise You? Selah
- NASB ¶Will You perform wonders for the dead? Or will the departed spirits rise and praise You? Selah
- NLT Are your wonderful deeds of any use to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Interlude
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- Ps 6:5For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?
- Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
- Ps 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
- Isa 38:18–19For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
- 1 Cor 15:52–57in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
- Ps 115:17The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;
- Luke 7:12–16Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
- Ezek 37:1–14Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
- Mark 5:35–36While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”
- Job 14:7–12“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
- Ps 118:17I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
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