“Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 88 contains 18 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.