Psalms 30:9
What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
- Ps 88:10-12 : 10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) 11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? 12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
- Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld. 18 But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
- Ps 118:17 : 17 Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.
- Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
- Isa 38:18 : 18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
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18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
19 The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.
- Job 7:20-212 verses76%
20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
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10 Give ear to me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: Lord, be my helper.
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5 For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
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19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
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8 My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.
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3 O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.
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13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
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17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!
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10 Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)
11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
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3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
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15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?
16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
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1 <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
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28 He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
- Ps 89:48-492 verses72%
48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?
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29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?
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31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
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9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
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9 Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?
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5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
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1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
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18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
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3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
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13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
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19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
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3 For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:
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15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
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3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
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10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.
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6 The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
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15 But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)
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14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
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13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
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23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
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11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
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30 Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.
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20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
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7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
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6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
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15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.
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19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.