Psalms 6:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 30:9 : 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?
  • 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 : 17 The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.
  • 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 38:18-19 : 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.
  • John 9:4 : 4 While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 38:18-19
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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.

  • Ps 115:17
    78%

    17 The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.

  • Ps 88:5-6
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    77%

    5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

    6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

  • Eccl 9:5
    76%

    5 The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

  • Ps 88:10-12
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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?

    12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

  • Ps 30:9
    75%

    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?

  • Ps 89:47-49
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    47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

    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?

  • Job 14:12-13
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    12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

    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!

  • Ps 6:4
    74%

    4 Come back, O Lord, make my soul free; O give me salvation because of your mercy.

  • Ps 6:6
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    6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

  • Isa 26:14
    73%

    14 The dead will not come back to life: their spirits will not come back to earth; for this cause you have sent destruction on them, so that the memory of them is dead.

  • Ps 30:3
    73%

    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.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    72%

    9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

    10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Ps 49:15
    72%

    15 But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

  • Job 21:32
    71%

    32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

  • Ps 16:10
    71%

    10 For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

  • Eccl 4:2
    70%

    2 So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

  • Job 30:23-24
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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.

    24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Job 3:21-22
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    21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

    22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

  • Job 14:10
    70%

    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

  • Job 7:21
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    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.

  • Job 17:13
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    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Job 17:1
    70%

    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Ps 139:8
    70%

    8 If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

  • Ps 116:3
    69%

    3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

  • Ps 143:3
    69%

    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.

  • Job 26:5
    69%

    5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

  • Ps 146:4
    69%

    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • 1 Sam 2:6
    69%

    6 The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.

  • Ps 31:17
    69%

    17 Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

  • Job 17:16
    69%

    16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?

  • Ps 49:17
    69%

    17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

  • Acts 2:27
    69%

    27 For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.

  • Hos 13:14
    69%

    14 I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.

  • Ps 63:6
    69%

    6 When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.

  • Isa 38:10
    69%

    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.

  • Ps 71:20
    69%

    20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

  • Ps 9:13
    69%

    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;

  • 2 Sam 22:6
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    6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.