Psalms 88:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:30 : 30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
  • Job 26:6 : 6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
  • Ps 73:18 : 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
  • Prov 15:11 : 11 Before the Lord are the underworld and destruction: how much more, then, the hearts of the children of men!
  • Matt 7:13 : 13 Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.
  • Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:
  • 2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

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  • Ps 88:10
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  • Ps 89:48-49
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    48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

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  • Ps 6:5
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  • Isa 38:17-19
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    17 See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

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    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 88:3-6
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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:

    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.

  • Ps 30:9
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    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 77:7-9
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    7 Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?

    8 Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

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    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

    17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

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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!

  • Ps 16:10
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    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.

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    13 For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

  • Ps 92:2
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    6 Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

  • Ps 49:14-15
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    14 Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

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    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.

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