Psalms 30:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

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  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?
  • Ps 88:10-12 : 10 Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah. 11 Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark, and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence. 18 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD.
  • Ps 118:17 : 17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

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  • Isa 38:18-19
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    18For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

    19The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I do this day: the father shall make known Your truth to the children.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • 10Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be my helper.

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    5For in death there is no remembrance of You: in the grave, who shall give You thanks?

  • Job 30:19-20
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    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

    20I cry to You, and You do not hear me: I stand up, and You regard me not.

  • 8I cried out to you, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication.

  • 3O LORD, you have brought my soul up from the grave; you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • Job 16:17-18
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    17Not for any injustice in my hands; also, my prayer is pure.

    18O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

  • Ps 88:10-11
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    10Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.

    11Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in destruction?

  • 3For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?

  • Job 17:15-16
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    15And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

    16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

  • 1To you I cry, O LORD my rock; do not be silent to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.

  • 28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

  • Ps 89:48-49
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    48What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.

    49Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth?

  • 29If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

  • 31Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.

  • 9I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

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    5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

  • 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • 18Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • 3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death:

  • 19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

  • Ps 88:3-4
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    3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to the grave.

    4I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am as a man who has no strength:

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • 10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

  • 6I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

  • 15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

  • 14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

  • 13O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.

  • 23For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

  • 11What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 30To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

  • 20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • 7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails: do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

  • 6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

  • 15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 19But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; like a carcass trodden under foot.