Mazmur 88:11

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(88-12) Dapatkah kasih-Mu diberitakan di dalam kubur, dan kesetiaan-Mu di tempat kebinasaan?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(88-12) Dapatkah kasih-Mu diberitakan di dalam kubur, dan kesetiaan-Mu di tempat kebinasaan?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Engkau akan berbuat ajaib akan orang matikah? bolehkah orang yang telah mati itu berbangkit pula serta memuji akan Dikau? -- Selah.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Wylt thou worke a miracle amongst the dead? or shal the dead rise vp againe [and] acknowledge thee? Selah. ¹¹ Shall thy louing kindnes be talked of in the graue? or thy faythfulnes in destruction? ¹² Shall thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke? and thy righteousnes in the lande of forgetfulnes? ¹³ But vnto thee do I crye O God: and my prayer commeth early in the morning before thee. ¹⁴ O God, why abhorrest thou my soule: and [why] hidest thou thy face from me? ¹⁵ I am in miserie, I labour euen from my youth with the panges of death: I haue suffered thy terrours, [and] I am styll in doubt. ¹⁶ Thyne indignation hath gone ouer me: and thy terrours haue vndone me. ¹⁷ They came rounde about me dayly lyke water: and compassed me altogether on euery syde. ¹⁸ Thou hast put a way farre from me my frende and neighbour: [thou hast hid] mine acquaintaunce out of sight.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in destruction: Psalms 55:23, Psalms 73:18, Job 21:30, Job 26:6, Proverbs 15:11, Matthew 7:13, Romans 9:22, 2 Peter 2:1

Reciprocal: Job 10:21 - the land Job 35:15 - in great Psalms 143:7 - unto them Ecclesiastes 9:5 - the dead Isaiah 38:18 - the grave

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?.... Where he saw himself now going, and where should he be detained, and not raised out of it, the lovingkindness of God to him, as his Son, and as man and Mediator, and to his people in the gift and mission of him to be their Saviour and Redeemer, how would that be declared and made known? now it is, Christ being raised, and his ministers having a commission from him to preach the Gospel, in which the lovingkindness of God is abundantly manifested:

or thy faithfulness in destruction? the grave, so called from dead bodies being cast into it, and wasted, consumed, and destroyed in it: the meaning may be, that should he be laid in the grave, and there putrefy and rot, and not be raised again, where would be the faithfulness of God to his purposes, to his covenant and promises, to him his Son, and to his people?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? - Thy goodness; thy mercy. Shall anyone make it known there? shall it there be celebrated?

Or thy faithfulness in destruction? - In the place where destruction seems to reign; where human hopes perish; where the body moulders back to dust. Shall anyone there dwell on the fidelity - the truthfulness - of God, in such a way as to honor him? It is implied here that, according to the views then entertained of the state of the dead, those things would not occur. According to what is now made known to us of the unseen world it is true that the mercy of God will not be made known to the dead; that the Gospel will not be preached to them; that no messenger from God will convey to them the offers of salvation. Compare Luke 16:28-31.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 88:11. 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.