17 It is not the dead(A) who praise the Lord,
    those who go down to the place of silence;

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Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?(A)

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10 Do you show your wonders to the dead?
    Do their spirits rise up and praise you?(A)
11 Is your love declared in the grave,
    your faithfulness(B) in Destruction[a]?
12 Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
    or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 88:11 Hebrew Abaddon

18 For the grave(A) cannot praise you,
    death cannot sing your praise;(B)
those who go down to the pit(C)
    cannot hope for your faithfulness.
19 The living, the living—they praise(D) you,
    as I am doing today;
parents tell their children(E)
    about your faithfulness.

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17 Let me not be put to shame,(A) Lord,
    for I have cried out to you;
but let the wicked be put to shame
    and be silent(B) in the realm of the dead.

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“What is gained if I am silenced,
    if I go down to the pit?(A)
Will the dust praise you?
    Will it proclaim your faithfulness?(B)

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He will guard the feet(A) of his faithful servants,(B)
    but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.(C)

“It is not by strength(D) that one prevails;

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